Re: Bug 157909: Unbootable system, affects many, apparently ignored
Markus Hitter wrote: Just to understand the problem better: Exposing SATA drives as IDE drives to the OS appears to be a temporary solution until all SATA driver programmers ( Hello Intel :-) ) have catched up and made an AHCI driver available. Ubuntu runs in AHCI mode just fine, even on a board which lacks a proper driver for Windows XP. AHCI is noticeable faster than IDE. What stops you from switching to AHCI? I was going to say the same thing. Often times the IDE emulation modes are totally broken too. Sometimes the bios calls it native mode vs emulation mode, or normal vs raid mode. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Bug 157909: Unbootable system, affects many, apparently ignored
Am 25.12.2007 um 23:35 schrieb Aaron C. de Bruyn: Can anyone provide me with some guidance on how to resolve this issue? Am I overblowing the issue since I am affected? Just to understand the problem better: Exposing SATA drives as IDE drives to the OS appears to be a temporary solution until all SATA driver programmers ( Hello Intel :-) ) have catched up and made an AHCI driver available. Ubuntu runs in AHCI mode just fine, even on a board which lacks a proper driver for Windows XP. AHCI is noticeable faster than IDE. What stops you from switching to AHCI? Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Bug 157909: Unbootable system, affects many, apparently ignored
Thank you for replying Markus. This is the first time I've heard the term AHCI. I did some googling and read up on it. From what I understand, AHCI is a mode you can set in the BIOS. I dug through the system BIOS and the BIOS on both cards and found no such setting. The cards are extremely cheap soft-RAID cards that I purchased simply so I could get 8 400GB SATA drives into my server case. So to answer What stops you from switching to AHCI? I would have to say to things: 1. No clue how to enable AHCI 2. If it's a BIOS setting, it appears my cards don't support it. -Aaron Am 25.12.2007 um 23:35 schrieb Aaron C. de Bruyn: Can anyone provide me with some guidance on how to resolve this issue? Am I overblowing the issue since I am affected? Just to understand the problem better: Exposing SATA drives as IDE drives to the OS appears to be a temporary solution until all SATA driver programmers ( Hello Intel :-) ) have catched up and made an AHCI driver available. Ubuntu runs in AHCI mode just fine, even on a board which lacks a proper driver for Windows XP. AHCI is noticeable faster than IDE. What stops you from switching to AHCI? Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
