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>> Googling revealed, that the SATA-ports in the VT8251 _should_ be |
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>> AHCI-compliant and therefor supported by Linux. |
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> vt8251 *is* ahci-compliant, and in bios there is option to set |
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> up sata controller as ide, or ahci. But no matter what you set, |
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> vt8251/sata is not recognised with standard 2.6.15 kernel... |
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> But there is unofficial patch/mod for ahci.c, and right now |
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> I'm testing it. BTW, I have read on via forum that kernel-dev's |
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> refused to include this patch in official kernel tree, because |
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> there is something peculiar about it (some fix they do not like). |
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> BTW, it's made by via and modified by some developers... |
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IMHO, the patch should only include the PCI-Id or something like that - |
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well, but the patch doesn't seem to be as simple as that. |
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Do you have a link to the patch? or even a link to the discussion in the |
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LKML? |
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Thanks |
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Sven |
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