Hey,

I've been working to get Linux going on my new desktop for a while now but I'm having a lot of problems because it there are no IDE drives, only SATA. Currently the hard drives work fine but my DVD's don't. They don't show up anywhere as even being found (as far as I can tell) and thus I can't mount them. They are shown during the bios boot as connected. Currently I can't get Windows to read them either which may scream hardware problem. One is a Lite-on IDE DVD-ROM, and one is Lite-on IDE DVD-/+RW, both with SATA - IDE converters, plugged into an Abit AB9 Pro (Intel 965/ICH8) with a Core 2 Duo processor. I had the BIOS set to IDE mode, installed Windows, then installed linux but had a lot of trouble. Everything was fine in windows but linux was really unstable and what not. Along the way found out it was better to be in AHCI mode - patched the registry in Windows for AHCI mode (but did not reinstall it) and got linux going again. Now I have Linux stable and the hard drives work great in both OS's, but I can't get the drives to work in either OS. If I reboot and put the system into IDE mode again, windows boots and can run everything. I don't believe Linux boots, although it could just be hanging for a really long time and I get impatient.

Anyway - I want to get it to work in AHCI. I don't really care if I can write to the disks yet but I need to be able to read from them. I've searched high and low on the internet but haven't been able to solve it yet although a lot of my reading is over my head on this stuff I'm fairly new to Linux.

System:
Abit AB9 Pro (Intel 965/ICH8), Core 2 Duo, 2 GB Ram, Intel HDA integrated audio,
Intregrated Realtek 1000 mbs card
Nvidia 7900 GT
Winfast 2000XP/FM tv tuner
Seagate 320 gb 7200.9 SATA
Seagate 120 gb 7200.9 IDE with IDE -> Sata converter
Lite On DVD-ROM IDE with IDE -> Sata Converter
Lite ON DVD-/+RW IDE with IDE -> Sata converter (don't know the brand but all 3 are the same, hard drive works fine but dvd's don't)
No other hardware in the system (no floppy drive, NICs, sound card etc)
USB keyboard, mouse, webcam, printer and no other devices there either

Windows XP PRO SP2, and Slackware 11 with Linux 2.6.20.3 Kernel

Dmesg Output:
Linux version 2.6.20.3 (root@main) (gcc version 3.4.6) #2 SMP PREEMPT Mon Apr 2 16:30:09 EDT 2007
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
sanitize start
sanitize end
copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000000000 size: 000000000009e400 end: 000000000009e400 type: 1
copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM
copy_e820_map() start: 000000000009e400 size: 0000000000001c00 end: 00000000000a0000 type: 2
copy_e820_map() start: 00000000000f0000 size: 0000000000010000 end: 0000000000100000 type: 2
copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000100000 size: 000000007fde0000 end: 000000007fee0000 type: 1
copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM
copy_e820_map() start: 000000007fee0000 size: 0000000000003000 end: 000000007fee3000 type: 4
copy_e820_map() start: 000000007fee3000 size: 000000000000d000 end: 000000007fef0000 type: 3
copy_e820_map() start: 000000007fef0000 size: 0000000000010000 end: 000000007ff00000 type: 2
copy_e820_map() start: 00000000e0000000 size: 0000000010000000 end: 00000000f0000000 type: 2
copy_e820_map() start: 00000000fec00000 size: 0000000001400000 end: 0000000100000000 type: 2
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009e400 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009e400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007fee0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000007fee0000 - 000000007fee3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000007fee3000 - 000000007fef0000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000007fef0000 - 000000007ff00000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
1150MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000f3510
Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 524000) 0 entries of 256 used
Zone PFN ranges:
DMA 0 -> 4096
Normal 4096 -> 229376
HighMem 229376 -> 524000
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
0: 0 -> 524000
On node 0 totalpages: 524000
DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 1760 pages used for memmap
Normal zone: 223520 pages, LIFO batch:31
HighMem zone: 2301 pages used for memmap
HighMem zone: 292323 pages, LIFO batch:31
DMI 2.2 present.
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
OEM ID: OEM00000 Product ID: PROD00000000 APIC at: 0xFEE00000
Processor #0 6:15 APIC version 17
Processor #1 6:15 APIC version 17
I/O APIC #4 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000.
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
Processors: 2
Allocating PCI resources starting at 80000000 (gap: 7ff00000:60100000)
Detected 2176.073 MHz processor.
Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 519907
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux2 ro root=807 combined_mode=libata
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 2071088k/2096000k available (4530k kernel code, 23788k reserved, 1348k data, 288k init, 1178496k highmem)
virtual kernel memory layout:
fixmap : 0xfff88000 - 0xfffff000 ( 476 kB)
pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB)
vmalloc : 0xf8800000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 111 MB)
lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xf8000000 ( 896 MB)
.init : 0xc06c5000 - 0xc070d000 ( 288 kB)
.data : 0xc056c966 - 0xc06bdbcc (1348 kB)
.text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc056c966 (4530 kB)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4353.76 BogoMIPS (lpj=2176883)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000 0000e3bd 00000000 00000001
monitor/mwait feature present.
using mwait in idle threads.
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00003940 0000e3bd 00000000 00000001
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Freeing SMP alternatives: 16k freed
CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz stepping 06
Booting processor 1/1 eip 2000
Initializing CPU#1
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4351.38 BogoMIPS (lpj=2175693)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000 0000e3bd 00000000 00000001
monitor/mwait feature present.
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 1
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00003940 0000e3bd 00000000 00000001
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
CPU1: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz stepping 06
Total of 2 processors activated (8705.15 BogoMIPS).
ExtINT not setup in hardware but reported by MP table
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=0 pin2=0
checking TSC synchronization across 2 CPUs: passed.
Brought up 2 CPUs
migration_cost=39
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 3.00 entry at 0xfa0f0, last bus=5
PCI: Using configuration type 1
Setting up standard PCI resources
SCSI subsystem initialized
libata version 2.00 loaded.
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI quirk: region 0400-047f claimed by ICH6 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
PCI quirk: region 0480-04bf claimed by ICH6 GPIO
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:01.0[A] -> IRQ 16
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:1a.0[A] -> IRQ 16
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:1a.1[B] -> IRQ 21
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:1a.7[C] -> IRQ 18
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:1b.0[A] -> IRQ 22
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:1c.0[A] -> IRQ 16
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:1c.2[C] -> IRQ 18
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:1c.4[A] -> IRQ 16
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> IRQ 23
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> IRQ 19
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> IRQ 18
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:1d.7[A] -> IRQ 23
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:1f.2[B] -> IRQ 19
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:1f.3[B] -> IRQ 19
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:01:00.0[A] -> IRQ 16
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:03:00.0[A] -> IRQ 18
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:04:00.0[A] -> IRQ 16
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:05:05.0[A] -> IRQ 21
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:05:05.1[A] -> IRQ 21
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: 9000-9fff
MEM window: fa000000-fcffffff
PREFETCH window: d0000000-dfffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.0
IO window: d000-dfff
MEM window: fdc00000-fdcfffff
PREFETCH window: fd900000-fd9fffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.2
IO window: c000-cfff
MEM window: fd800000-fd8fffff
PREFETCH window: fd700000-fd7fffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.4
IO window: a000-afff
MEM window: fde00000-fdefffff
PREFETCH window: fdd00000-fddfffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
IO window: b000-bfff
MEM window: fdb00000-fdbfffff
PREFETCH window: fda00000-fdafffff
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.2 to 64
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.4 to 64
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1e.0 (0000 -> 0003)
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1572864 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 786432 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
NTFS driver 2.1.28 [Flags: R/W].
JFS: nTxBlock = 8192, nTxLock = 65536
SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, no debug enabled
SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:01.0cie00]
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.0cie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.0cie02]
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.2 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.2cie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.2cie02]
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.4 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.4cie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.4cie02]
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd0000000, mapped to 0xf8d00000, using 1536k, total 262144k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x8, linelength=1024, pages=3
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:cb60
vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00ccb96, set palette = c00ccc00
vesafb: pmi: ports = 3b4 3b5 3ba 3c0 3c1 3c4 3c5 3c6 3c7 3c8 3c9 3cc 3ce 3cf 3d0 3d1 3d2 3d3 3d4 3d5 3da
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Pseudocolor: size=8:8:8:8, shift=0:0:0:0
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.15-k2-NAPI
Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.
r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.2LK loaded
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:03:00.0 to 64
eth0: RTL8168b/8111b at 0xf8cea000, 00:50:8d:91:ff:84, IRQ 18
r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.2LK loaded
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:04:00.0 to 64
eth1: RTL8168b/8111b at 0xf8cec000, 00:50:8d:91:ff:85, IRQ 16
Loading Adaptec I2O RAID: Version 2.4 Build 5go
Detecting Adaptec I2O RAID controllers...
Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1-5[2423]-mh3)
scsi: <fdomain> Detection failed (no card)
QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver
Emulex LightPulse Fibre Channel SCSI driver 8.1.11
Copyright(c) 2004-2006 Emulex. All rights reserved.
DC390: clustering now enabled by default. If you get problems load
with "disable_clustering=1" and report to maintainers
megaraid cmm: 2.20.2.7 (Release Date: Sun Jul 16 00:01:03 EST 2006)
megaraid: 2.20.4.9 (Release Date: Sun Jul 16 12:27:22 EST 2006)
megasas: 00.00.03.05 Mon Oct 02 11:21:32 PDT 2006

GDT-HA: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 3.05
GDT-HA: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers
3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.26.02.002.
3ware 9000 Storage Controller device driver for Linux v2.26.02.008.
nsp32: loading...
RocketRAID 3xxx SATA Controller driver v1.0 (060426)
ahci 0000:00:1f.2: version 2.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
ahci 0000:00:1f.2: AHCI 0001.0100 32 slots 6 ports 3 Gbps 0x3f impl SATA mode
ahci 0000:00:1f.2: flags: 64bit ncq led clo pio slum part
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8CEE100 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 19
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8CEE180 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 19
ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8CEE200 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 19
ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8CEE280 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 19
ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8CEE300 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 19
ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8CEE380 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 19
scsi0 : ahci
ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
ata1.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 625142448 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
scsi1 : ahci
ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata2.00: ATA-6, max UDMA/100, 234441648 sectors: LBA48
ata2.00: applying bridge limits
ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100
scsi2 : ahci
ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata3.00: ATAPI, max UDMA/33
ata3.00: configured for UDMA/33
scsi3 : ahci
ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata4.00: ATAPI, max UDMA/33
ata4.00: configured for UDMA/33
scsi4 : ahci
ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
scsi5 : ahci
ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3320620AS 3.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
SCSI device sda: 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
SCSI device sda: 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 >
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3120026A 3.06 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
SCSI device sdb: 234441648 512-byte hdwr sectors (120034 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sdb: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
SCSI device sdb: 234441648 512-byte hdwr sectors (120034 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sdb: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
sdb: sdb1
sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb
sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
ata3.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x12 data 36 in
res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
ata3: soft resetting port
ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata3.00: configured for UDMA/33
ata3: EH complete
ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
ata3.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x12 data 36 in
res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
ata3: soft resetting port
ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata3.00: configured for UDMA/33
ata3: EH complete
ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
ata3.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x12 data 36 in
res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
ata3: soft resetting port
ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata3.00: configured for UDMA/33
ata3: EH complete
ata3.00: limiting speed to UDMA/25
ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
ata3.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x12 data 36 in
res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
ata3: soft resetting port
ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata3.00: configured for UDMA/25
ata3: EH complete
ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
ata4.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x12 data 36 in
res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
ata4: soft resetting port
ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata4.00: configured for UDMA/33
ata4: EH complete
ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
ata4.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x12 data 36 in
res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
ata4: soft resetting port
ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata4.00: configured for UDMA/33
ata4: EH complete
ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
ata4.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x12 data 36 in
res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
ata4: soft resetting port
ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata4.00: configured for UDMA/33
ata4: EH complete
ata4.00: limiting speed to UDMA/25
ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
ata4.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x12 data 36 in
res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
ata4: soft resetting port
ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata4.00: configured for UDMA/25
ata4: EH complete
usbmon: debugfs is not available
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1a.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
PCI: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 0000:00:1a.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: irq 18, io mem 0xfdfff000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
PCI: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 23, io mem 0xfdffe000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
116x: driver isp116x-hcd, 03 Nov 2005
ohci_hcd: 2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1a.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.0: irq 16, io base 0x0000ff00
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1a.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.1: irq 21, io base 0x0000fe00
usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 23, io base 0x0000fd00
usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 6
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 19, io base 0x0000fc00
usb usb6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 6-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 6-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 7
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 18, io base 0x0000fb00
usb usb7: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 7-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 7-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
sl811: driver sl811-hcd, 19 May 2005
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb 5-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 5-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 5-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 5-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 6-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 6-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
input: Logitech USB Receiver as /class/input/input0
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-2
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
I2O subsystem v1.325
i2o: max drivers = 8
I2O Configuration OSM v1.323
I2O Bus Adapter OSM v1.317
I2O Block Device OSM v1.325
I2O SCSI Peripheral OSM v1.316
I2O ProcFS OSM v1.316
TCP cubic registered
Initializing XFRM netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Starting balanced_irq
Using IPI Shortcut mode
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input1
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 288k freed
Adding 1951856k swap on /dev/sda6. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1951856k
Linux video capture interface: v2.00
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input2
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x8704
usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:05:05.0, irq: 21, latency: 16, mmio: 0xfdaff000
bttv0: detected: Leadtek WinFast TV 2000 [card=34], PCI subsystem ID is 107d:6606
bttv0: using: Leadtek WinFast 2000/ WinFast 2000 XP [card=34,autodetected]
bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00bf7707 [init]
bttv0: using tuner=5
bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9887 @ 0x86... not found
usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
tuner 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (bt878 #0 [sw])
tuner 1-0061: type set to 5 (Philips PAL_BG (FI1216 and compatibles))
tuner 1-0061: type set to 5 (Philips PAL_BG (FI1216 and compatibles))
bttv0: registered device video0
bttv0: registered device vbi0
bttv0: registered device radio0
bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .<6>Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
. ok
input: bttv IR (card=34) as /class/input/input3
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:05:05.1 to 64
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64
agpgart: Detected an Intel 965G Chipset.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0x0
bt878: AUDIO driver version 0.0.0 loaded
NTFS volume version 3.1.
NTFS volume version 3.1.
NTFS-fs error (device sda5): load_system_files(): Volume is dirty. Mounting read-only. Run chkdsk and mount in Windows.
NTFS volume version 3.1.
r8169: eth0: link up
r8169: eth0: link up
ata1: soft resetting port
ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
ata1: EH complete
SCSI device sda: 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
ata2: soft resetting port
ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata2: EH complete
SCSI device sdb: 234441648 512-byte hdwr sectors (120034 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sdb: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
ata3: soft resetting port
ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata3.00: configured for UDMA/25
ata3: EH complete
ata3: soft resetting port
ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata3.00: configured for UDMA/25
ata3: EH complete
ata4: soft resetting port
ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata4.00: configured for UDMA/25
ata4: EH complete
ata4: soft resetting port
ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata4.00: configured for UDMA/25
ata4: EH complete
ata5: soft resetting port
ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
ata5: EH complete
ata5: soft resetting port
ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
ata5: EH complete
ata6: soft resetting port
ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
ata6: EH complete
ata6: soft resetting port
ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
ata6: EH complete
























Lsmod Output
Module Size Used by
snd_seq_dummy 3020 0
snd_seq_oss 30848 0
snd_seq_midi_event 6144 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 48368 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss 43136 0
snd_mixer_oss 15232 2 snd_pcm_oss
pcmcia 31132 0
yenta_socket 23580 0
rsrc_nonstatic 9732 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 35264 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
bt878 9040 0
intel_agp 20636 1
agpgart 28428 1 intel_agp
snd_hda_intel 16504 1
snd_hda_codec 161072 1 snd_hda_intel
tuner 61816 0
snd_bt87x 12324 0
snd_usb_audio 76672 0
snd_usb_lib 14784 1 snd_usb_audio
bttv 166688 1 bt878
snd_pcm 71628 5 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_bt87x,snd_usb_audio
video_buf 20104 1 bttv
ir_common 26508 1 bttv
usblp 12036 0
compat_ioctl32 1280 1 bttv
snd_rawmidi 19520 1 snd_usb_lib
shpchp 30176 0
btcx_risc 4300 1 bttv
tveeprom 14048 1 bttv
evdev 8384 0
i2c_i801 7116 0
snd_seq_device 6540 4 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
pcspkr 2624 0
videodev 25664 1 bttv
snd_hwdep 7044 1 snd_usb_audio
v4l2_common 22208 3 tuner,bttv,videodev
snd_timer 20616 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
v4l1_compat 12744 1 videodev
snd 45220 13 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_bt87x,snd_usb_audio,sn d_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_hwdep,snd_timer
soundcore 6432 2 snd
snd_page_alloc 7880 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_bt87x,snd_pcm



















I don't know what it means but the boot time is also inordinately long. It seems like it is searching around for a while but not finding anything and timesouts a lot. On a fast computer it takes me 5-10 minutes to boot up, 99% of which is the drive section.

Thanks a lot,

Kevin

Are you sure your "SATA-IDE converter" is meant to work with optical drives? It might only be for hard drives. Optical drives use a different interface (ATAPI) than hard drives, even though both use the same physical connector. IDE expansion cards (made by Promise, etc.) often aren't compatible with optical drives, for example.

I don't really agree there. I've used all types of Promise cards before and that's just not my experience. I could plug in both HDs and optical drives, even in the same slot, and both worked fine. A SATA-IDE converter is something else again so I'm not so sure about that one.

As for the optical drives, have you tried adding "all-generic-ide irqpoll" to the bootline in GRUB? This is just a workaround but it may give us an idea whether it's possible to get them to work at all.

Also, do your really insist on using AHCI for the optical drives? Why not plug them into the onboard controller? I can assure you that at least my SATA HDs run faster when I use IDE mode! AHCI is more of a marketing hype than an advance, in my opinion.

I agree that the AHCI isn't faster, it is just logistics. I don't have any IDE cabels in my dorm and there is no store close enough to pick them up so its not really an option for a few more weeks and the dimensions of my case make it really advantagous to stick with SATA connectors (stupid upside down Lian Li case) The other option for setting the drives to IDE mode in the Bios makes them show up in Windows and work fine - but then Linux can't boot up at all much less see them.

I'm going to check out what converters I have later and post back because its possible they can't do ATAPI which would send me back to the drawing boards on whether I should buy new converters and have it maybe work or go back to IDE cables.

I tried "all-generic-ide" and nothing happened but i'll tried "all-generic-ide irqpoll"

Thanks for the input. I'm also using Lilo instead of Grub because its Slackware should I change that to make it easier to edit boot options or not worth it?

Here is the SATA - IDE converter:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822998001

and the specs say it should work for cd/dvd drives, although at the moment i'm unsure if anyone can get native sata dvd drives to work so I'm skeptical it is the converter - but I won't rule it out. I think i'm going back to IDE for the DVDs unless someone has gotten it working already if I can get the cables, don't think linux is there yet but I'm sure once they get more popular it will work so in 3-4 months the kernel should fix it I hope.

My experience with a similar issue (ASUS P5B = ICH8 + Jmicron) is that some distros cannot see the optical drives (so you can't install) until they are installed - after that, for whatever reason they all of a sudden do see them. But then that's with a PATA cable so my case is somewhat different.

As for the Lilo vs. GRUB question, that's often been debated. I do prefer GRUB because it's somewhat easier to maintain than Lilo (e.g. if you do a kernel update, GRUB will update itself - Lilo doesn't so you always have to think about doing that yourself) but, well, I guess it's just what you are/get used to. I know many who started out with Lilo and who don't see any reason whatsoever to adopt GRUB instead. Also, there are occasions where you have to use Lilo (e.g. if you use xfs for your boot partition (or / partition if you don't have a separate boot partition)). The important thing is to learn as soon as possible what your bootloader does or can do.