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Old 04-10-2006, 07:12 AM   #1
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ICH6-R on Slackware


Hi,

I am trying to get my ICH6-R compatible SATA controller to work on a Slackware 10.2 box. Booting with sata.i does not work correctly. I have already read:

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html

and also tried the driver from:

http://www.stevehardy.info/

all with no luck.

Any Ideas how to enable this controller?

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Old 04-10-2006, 07:16 AM   #2
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Are you specifically using it for RAID or just like an IDE controller?
 
Old 04-10-2006, 07:39 AM   #3
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I am trying to use it as an raid controller but right now i have enable compatibility mode in the BIOS to let it act as an P_ATA drive.

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Old 04-10-2006, 07:42 AM   #4
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Thats exactly what i was going to suggest
 
Old 04-10-2006, 12:07 PM   #5
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Dma

The Problem is that DMA Mode is not working in P_ATA mode.

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Old 04-10-2006, 01:24 PM   #6
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Booting should work without DMA enabled.
 
Old 04-10-2006, 01:35 PM   #7
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enable DMA

Is there a way to manually enable DMA mode during boot?

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Old 04-10-2006, 01:40 PM   #8
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To enable DMA you can use hdparm. Don't know if it will work during boot? BTW, why DMA is needed during boot?
 
Old 04-10-2006, 02:07 PM   #9
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DMA after boot

It should be at least activated after boot (rc.local) to make the system act faster.

But I still wonder why the SATA controller is not detected corretly by AHCI. It consists of a ICH6-R sata controller bundled with a LSI RAID part (embedded chip).

The controller should act as a normal SATA controller using AHCIs ICH6-R support but it doesnt.

While trying to partition the harddisk with cfdisk it does not detect the correct device layout. The drive is declared as 780 GB drive e.g.

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Old 04-10-2006, 02:25 PM   #10
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Ok, so I guess there are 2 problems:
1) DMA not working (can't help cause I can't get it working myself);
2) SATA not recognized
I have SATA hdd too. Make sure that you compiled/loaded only your controller support and not any other (they are "fighting" with each other). In my case, my SATA worked with bare.i kernel too. Try to set SATA as IDE in your bios.

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Old 04-19-2006, 01:37 AM   #11
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I don't think Compatibility Mode in your BIOS does what you think it does. Set it to enhanced and enable all SATA ports + all PATA ports. That's a start.

Do you realize that the SATA drive is recognized as a SCSI device (e.g. sda1)?
 
Old 04-20-2006, 02:43 AM   #12
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I recompiled kernel 2.6.x and built in sata support,then slackware support sata.
Sata can run as normal ide but the i/o speed is too slow.
 
Old 04-20-2006, 12:21 PM   #13
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What's your output of <code>hdparm /dev/sda</code>?
 
Old 04-20-2006, 12:50 PM   #14
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I had better luck booting the install to the test26 kernel for my Dell D610 laptop (both bare.i and sata.i had problems writing to swap) and then recompiling a new kernel.

Are you sure the RAID chipset on your mainboard is supported unter Linux?

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