Thanks mate. The controller is "00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)" and following is lspci output.
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller (rev 03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:03.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 03) 00:03.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PT IDER Controller (rev 03) 00:03.3 Serial controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Serial KT Controller (rev 03) 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02) 00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 02) 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev a2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JDO (ICH10DO) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02) Actually it's a Lenovo workstation I don't know the mainboard type exactly. Thanks. Eric On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > Hi Eric, > >> Yep, I use the latest version of UIDE. > > Good :-) > >>>> I always encountered "BAD Controller" error messages... > >>> The source code says that this message can be shown if not both >>> flags "busmaster" and "memory mapped I/O" are active. This might >>> be related to your BIOS settings, in particular for SATA. Some >>> BIOSes may need settings as AHCI, "legacy mode" or "native IDE". > >> So it looks like UIDE is not a real SATA driver. It still depends >> on BIOS related settings. Maybe just faster when reading data. > > Well, partially. It depends on the BIOS to set the controller > to a suitable standard compatible mode... I guess such things > do not follow a fixed schema(?) so the best that future UIDE > versions could do would be knowing how to mode-switch a few > known chipsets and controllers. The current version, however, > depends on the BIOS to set the mode and then uses universal > SATA compatible I/O to work with any brand of controller. > > I hope I understood the philosophy of UIDE correctly :-) > > If you can tell us which model of controller (and mainboard) > chipset you use, then maybe I can find a few steps for manual > mode switching which we can then roll into a tiny "init tool" > style driver which you would load before UIDE. Note, however, > that this might break BIOS access to drives on that controller > so only access which goes through UIDE would stay working. > > Regards, Eric > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
