From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PgMjh-0001JX-4B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:33:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8848DE0C87; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:32:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BC3CE0C87 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:32:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwi18 with SMTP id 18so2089108wwi.10 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:32:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=XfwOioE+C3M08oUAWZDZXc5ZrM8AlCZSCflC5y5JkW0=; b=EXG6rwb/1J5USoa61q3PsUt2HDNuDQaISaxc6fWQchFyAVdSMoxNmbmyogPEklA+H3 z1cCTT48++aleWP5Y0ddZRab9Hh8wyjUTAYA2FWai//PpjHYUGbLdcC5840LodybeYdE 7gzRQymI5ln01BFz1ZE8QgvgaDU/vsYNHgYkg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=RM+9HkEEibU+lNk2vGp3YGPUU0p1yeX4IIW+FIl6X40282zdHpDOAoBGGPkjM5B/Xl /36F95N9L+GX4FSpvH9+b6W7PPh9QBW9OYVF4TuI73OPtGUmVUcW1IrQrAuG6n6mdYbz oKOIvWPhX1szghejOc1IG9hFr0Jvu5ugNK9ck= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.157.129 with SMTP id o1mr88638wek.59.1295638329272; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:32:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.16.21 with HTTP; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:32:09 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4d39db9a.9505df0a.50d3.ffffbf47@mx.google.com> References: <20110121184507.GC5787@solfire> <4d39db9a.9505df0a.50d3.ffffbf47@mx.google.com> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:32:09 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 42fea6fafea8bd9cc1a8feb8c404ac88 On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0I'm happy to be corrected (by Volker I'm sure) but that's m= y guess >> as to what you're seeing. > > you are confusing bios calls and bios programming chips as.... also - is = there > any good reason to use IDE mode? Any? At all? I don't believe I'm 'confusing bios calls with bios programming'. The BIOS can do whatever it wants to in programming the chips as long as grub can still find the kernel. After grub finds the kernel the kernel is free to override whatever chip programming the BIOS has done and reprogram the chips as it sees best. I think the issue meino possibly has is that he likely didn't include an Int13 type driver in the kernel or most likely his system would have booted like it did in the _very_ old days. I agree that there isn't any good reason I know of to use IDE mode unless the other modes the BIOS provides don't work. I cannot get into my Asus BIOS at the moment, but as I remember it Asus gave me something like IDE AHCI AHCI + compatibility IIRC I had to use the last one to get mine to boot but I may be wrong about that. I only mention this as meino is also using Asus so he might look for similar options. - Mark