Any update?

Eric

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Lee Eric <openlinuxsou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks mate. The controller is "00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel
> Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)"
> and following is lspci output.
>
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller (rev 
> 03)
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset
> Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
> 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset
> Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
> 00:03.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset
> HECI Controller (rev 03)
> 00:03.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PT IDER
> Controller (rev 03)
> 00:03.3 Serial controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Serial
> KT Controller (rev 03)
> 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567LM-3 Gigabit
> Network Connection (rev 02)
> 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family)
> USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
> 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family)
> USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
> 00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family)
> USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 02)
> 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family)
> USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) HD
> Audio Controller (rev 02)
> 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family)
> USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
> 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family)
> USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
> 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family)
> USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
> 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family)
> USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JDO (ICH10DO) LPC Interface
> Controller (rev 02)
> 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family)
> SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) SMBus
> Controller (rev 02)
>
> Actually it's a Lenovo workstation I don't know the mainboard type exactly.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Eric
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>>> Yep, I use the latest version of UIDE.
>>
>> Good :-)
>>
>>>>> I always encountered "BAD Controller" error messages...
>>
>>>> The source code says that this message can be shown if not both
>>>> flags "busmaster" and "memory mapped I/O" are active. This might
>>>> be related to your BIOS settings, in particular for SATA. Some
>>>> BIOSes may need settings as AHCI, "legacy mode" or "native IDE".
>>
>>> So it looks like UIDE is not a real SATA driver. It still depends
>>> on BIOS related settings. Maybe just faster when reading data.
>>
>> Well, partially. It depends on the BIOS to set the controller
>> to a suitable standard compatible mode... I guess such things
>> do not follow a fixed schema(?)  so the best that future UIDE
>> versions could do would be knowing how to mode-switch  a few
>> known chipsets and controllers. The current version, however,
>> depends on the BIOS to set the mode and then uses universal
>> SATA compatible I/O to work with any brand of controller.
>>
>> I hope I understood the philosophy of UIDE correctly :-)
>>
>> If you can tell us which model of controller (and mainboard)
>> chipset you use, then maybe I can find a few steps for manual
>> mode switching which we can then roll into a tiny "init tool"
>> style driver which you would load before UIDE. Note, however,
>> that this might break BIOS access to drives on that controller
>> so only access which goes through UIDE would stay working.
>>
>> Regards, Eric
>>
>>
>

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