On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 08:37:21AM +0930, Jonathan Woithe wrote: > The CDROM was showing up in the POST in all cases. > > It turns out the problem (as I outlined in a followup post) resulted from a > combination of issues. > > 1) This board uses a Marvell PATA controller, so the relevant driver must > be configured. > > 2) Unless the "Configure SATA as" setting in the BIOS is set to "AHCI" the > PATA controller won't be found. Sounds a bit odd and counter-intuitive, > but that's what's happening. Originally this item was set to IDE; the > other option is RAID but I haven't tested that.
Maybe the SATA pretending to be PATA took up the ports that the marvell PATA needed to provide PATA, so in effect hidding the marvell. -- Len Sorensen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
