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On 04/21/2012 10:02:26 AM, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> 120421 pk wrote: |
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> > On 2012-04-21 04:12, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> >> It's an Asus P5G41T-M LX & the manual says : |
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> > the chipset on that mobo is G41 (released in 2008) and it combines |
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> > with ICH7 which unfortunately doesn't seem to support AHCI. |
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> That's important to hear, but it can't be a show-stopper, |
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> as the 3 other Linux distro's I've mentioned have no problem. |
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> I tried compiling AHCI as [M], which is what Mandriva + Ubuntu do, |
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> but it makes no difference. There must be some other setting |
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> their kernels use to identify the drive, which mine doesn't have set. |
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> Can anyone suggest what other settings to try ? |
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> I've looked at their kernel .config files, but nothing jumps out. |
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> At least, I've managed to compile + install a kernel |
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> in a chroot using System Rescue, which I hadn't done before ! |
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Boot your system e.g. with SystemRescueCD |
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then do lspci -k |
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this shows you which module is in use. |
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Then build your own kernel with this module. |
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Helmut. |
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