Geert Stappers wrote: > <preamble for="your information"> > > The Debian T-shirts with the text > > Good things happen to people who can > wait > > are suppost to be a joke. > > </preamble> > > Op 16-10-2006 om 17:46 schreef Frans Pop: > >> On Monday 16 October 2006 17:07, Jason Martens wrote: >> >>> I tried again with they most recent d-i daily snapshot of the hd-media >>> (and netinstall.iso). I ran "modprobe ahci", but it still did not >>> detect the sata disks. >>> >> That is expected as the installer has not yet switched to 2.6.18. At this >> time it is uncertain when exactly we will do so, but it should certainly >> be within the next month. >> Suggest you keep your eyes open for announcements. >> > > In my opinion can the original poster do more then WAITing. > He should confirm that the working system has the ahci kernel module > loaded. If not, then should be research which is the right module > for the ICH8 SATA controller (and reported back) > I did confirm that the ahci kernel was loaded, as I state above. As for which driver it needs, I believe that it is the ata_piix driver. See the 2.6.18 kernel changelog[1] which contains this:
commit 08f12edc335d24a89ba2f50b0a5b9d12295ce198 Author: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue Jul 11 11:57:44 2006 -0400 [libata] ata_piix: attempt to fix ICH8 support Take into account the fact that ICH8 changed the register layout of the MAP and PCS register bits. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Here is the dmesg output from a kanotix live CD: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx Probing IDE interface ide0... Probing IDE interface ide1... 3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.26.02.001. 3ware 9000 Storage Controller device driver for Linux v2.26.02.007. libata version 2.00 loaded. ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: version 2.00 ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: MAP [ P0 -- P1 -- ] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[C] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 209 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64 ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFE00 ctl 0xFE12 bmdma 0xFEC0 irq 209 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFE20 ctl 0xFE32 bmdma 0xFEC8 irq 209 scsi0 : ata_piix ata1.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 156250000 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) ata1.00: ata1: dev 0 multi count 8 ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 scsi1 : ata_piix ata2.00: ATAPI, max UDMA/100 ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100 Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD800JD-75MS Rev: 10.0 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Vendor: SONY Model: CDRWDVD CRX310S Rev: VDK2 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 05 ata_piix 0000:00:1f.5: MAP [ P0 -- P1 -- ] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[C] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 209 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64 HTH. Jason Martens [1]http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.18 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]