Re: [9fans] ide fix?
This sounds promising for that ICH laptop with the 320G drive that magically doesn't work (though the 120GB one that was in it was fine). How do I get this on a disc to try it out? what was the symptom again? - erik
Re: [9fans] ide fix?
This sounds promising for that ICH laptop with the 320G drive that magically doesn't work (though the 120GB one that was in it was fine). How do I get this on a disc to try it out? can you pxe? - erik
Re: [9fans] ide fix?
2009/7/13 erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net: after a week of fighting with an atom with ich7r sata in ide mode, i finally found the secret sauce that keeps it from hanging. i pushed out a changed quanstro/9load-e820 and quanstro/sd which boot on my atom machine in ide mode without causing interrupt storms. other changes were included work around ahci power quirks for this chipset, if your bios supports it, i would recommend ahci mode. i also pushed out a version of ether8169 as quanstro/8169 that supports the particular 8169 macs that are in my atom machine (and jumbo frames). i have a feeling that these changes may be helpful in correcting other intel ich-based ide problems. i've got an intel ich6-based machine that has exhibited similar symptoms at work that i hope to test tomorrow. i'll be interested to hear if these changes work for other people. - erik This sounds promising for that ICH laptop with the 320G drive that magically doesn't work (though the 120GB one that was in it was fine). How do I get this on a disc to try it out? --dho
Re: [9fans] ide fix?
2009/7/13 erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net: This sounds promising for that ICH laptop with the 320G drive that magically doesn't work (though the 120GB one that was in it was fine). How do I get this on a disc to try it out? can you pxe? Not easily. The issue was a few bits in PCI register space that we weren't entirely sure what they were for but you suspected that they needed to be set up differently for some AHCI power management bits or something like that. --dho - erik
[9fans] ide fix?
after a week of fighting with an atom with ich7r sata in ide mode, i finally found the secret sauce that keeps it from hanging. i pushed out a changed quanstro/9load-e820 and quanstro/sd which boot on my atom machine in ide mode without causing interrupt storms. other changes were included work around ahci power quirks for this chipset, if your bios supports it, i would recommend ahci mode. i also pushed out a version of ether8169 as quanstro/8169 that supports the particular 8169 macs that are in my atom machine (and jumbo frames). i have a feeling that these changes may be helpful in correcting other intel ich-based ide problems. i've got an intel ich6-based machine that has exhibited similar symptoms at work that i hope to test tomorrow. i'll be interested to hear if these changes work for other people. - erik
