Christian Kellner wrote:
> There exists a work-around by patching grub stage1. Find the patch and
> the binary here: http://boeglin.org/blog/. I did it here and its working
> like a charm.
This is a neat hack. If I get a morning or afternoon clear (with a boot
disc handy), I might try it. I hack
Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Just adding the ID to ahci.c would break a large number of other
> machines, so while easy it's not possible.
I spent a few hours one day trying to reprogram the controller using
setpci from initramfs and didn't have any luck. It appeared that once
the controller had its
Matthew Garrett wrote:
> The firmware programs the sata controller into piix mode, not ahci mode.
> On this specific hardware, the ahci driver is able to reprogram it -
> however, that isn't guaranteed in general, and attempts to do so have
> led to unfortunate behaviour like missing CD drives. Rig
Stephen Touset wrote:
> Has this been fixed?
>
> It was reported that there was a patch in testing, but I've seen no
> activity since. This seems to still be in Gutsy.
The bug is still present in Gutsy as of a previous beta (I'm about 2
months out-of-date). I can retest this week with the latest
Christian Kellner wrote:
> This is acutally a dup of bug 64433 I filed a while ago. I am pretty
> sure it was fixed at some point but is now back again. The slow disk
> speed is damn annoying.
I have only tracked Feisty for about two weeks, and my drives performed
great with Edgy and 2.6.17. Actu
