From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161012AbWAGTMc (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jan 2006 14:12:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161006AbWAGTMb (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jan 2006 14:12:31 -0500 Received: from [81.2.110.250] ([81.2.110.250]:27283 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161012AbWAGTMO (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jan 2006 14:12:14 -0500 Subject: Re: Changes in SATA, IDE and ATAPI configuration From: Alan Cox To: andyliebman@aol.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <8C7E1BF63B9F5F4-AC8-506C@FWM-M45.sysops.aol.com> References: <8C7E1BF63B9F5F4-AC8-506C@FWM-M45.sysops.aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 19:14:49 +0000 Message-Id: <1136661289.3748.70.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sad, 2006-01-07 at 11:34 -0500, andyliebman@aol.com wrote: > -- BIOS settings for the ICH5 SATA controller on my Xeon motherboard > (Auto, SATA, PATA?) > -- Whether the CD is connected to the Primary or Secondary IDE channel Secondary slave is broken in 2.6.15 and all earlier SATA releases I've seen for ICH5. ATAPI prefetch handling is incorrect on PIIX/ICH5. If the CD is anywhere but the secondary slave it should be fine. > -- Use (or NOT) of "options libata atapi_enabled=1" in modprobe.conf If its modular. Otherwise it needs to be a boot time option for libata > -- Order of loading modules Shouldn't be > -- Use (or NOT) of the AHCI module. When making fresh installs onto > SATA drives, some distributions seem to load the AHCI module and some > don't, on exactly the same hardware with the same kernel. AHCI mode is an option for the ICH5-R and later controllers and BIOS side. Basically ICH5 supports 'Pretend we are one device' (Combined mode) which will see the PATA ATAPI ports appear as non DMA IDE ports (old style) and in its full functional mode where PATA and SATA ports are properly seperated out. > Whatever it is, I haven't found the magic formula for making the > transfer from IDE to SATA work. Insert CD, install, sync over data. Actually for Fedora and anything using initrd root device labels you should only need to make the right initrd and set the options. Alan