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04-10-2006, 07:12 AM
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Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Germany
Distribution: GNU/Linux
Posts: 33
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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?
Best Ragards
Marcus
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04-10-2006, 07:16 AM
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Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Poole, Dorset, England
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Are you specifically using it for RAID or just like an IDE controller?
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04-10-2006, 07:39 AM
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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.
Best Regars
Marcus
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04-10-2006, 07:42 AM
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Thats exactly what i was going to suggest 
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04-10-2006, 12:07 PM
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Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Germany
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Dma
The Problem is that DMA Mode is not working in P_ATA mode.
Best Regards
Marcus
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04-10-2006, 01:24 PM
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Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Lithuania
Distribution: Hybrid
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Booting should work without DMA enabled.
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04-10-2006, 01:35 PM
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enable DMA
Is there a way to manually enable DMA mode during boot?
Marcus
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04-10-2006, 01:40 PM
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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?
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04-10-2006, 02:07 PM
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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.
Best Regards
Marcus
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04-10-2006, 02:25 PM
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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.
Last edited by Alien_Hominid; 04-10-2006 at 02:27 PM.
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04-19-2006, 01:37 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2006
Location: California
Distribution: Slack-current
Posts: 7
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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)?
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04-20-2006, 02:43 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2004
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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.
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04-20-2006, 12:21 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2006
Location: California
Distribution: Slack-current
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What's your output of <code>hdparm /dev/sda</code>?
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04-20-2006, 12:50 PM
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Registered: May 2004
Location: Southwestern USA
Distribution: CentOS
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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?
Dennisk
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