[tlinux-users:08382] Re: A105-S4284 page & SATA problem

Hi Zack,

I've got a Satellite A105-S4014 and am happily running Gentoo on it. I
just have one hard drive and therefore no software raid or anything. I
use version 2 of beyond-sources 2.6.19 so that I can play with
reiser4, suspend2 and performance tweaks without having to patch my
kernel manually. Here's my pertinent kernel configuration:

Device Drivers -> Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers:
<*> ATA device support
   < >   AHCI SATA support
    < >   ServerWorks Frodo / Apple K2 SATA support
    <*>   Intel PIIX/ICH SATA support
    < >   Marvell SATA support (HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL)
    < >   NVIDIA SATA support
...

CONFIG_ATA_PIIX:

This option enables support for ICH5/6/7/8 Serial ATA.
If PATA support was enabled previously, this enables
support for select Intel PIIX/ICH PATA host controllers.

Here's my relevant dmesg output:
ACPI: SSDT (v001 SataRe  SataPri 0x00001000 INTL 0x20050624) @ 0x3f67f203
ACPI: SSDT (v001 SataRe  SataSec 0x00001000 INTL 0x20050624) @ 0x3f67eb71
...
SCSI subsystem initialized
libata version 2.00 loaded.
...
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: version 2.00ac6
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: MAP [ P0 P2 IDE IDE ]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
ata: 0x170 IDE port busy
ata: conflict with ide1
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0x18B0 irq 14
ata2: DUMMY
scsi0 : ata_piix
ata1.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/100, 234441648 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
ata1.00: ata1: dev 0 multi count 16
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
scsi1 : ata_piix
scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      TOSHIBA MK1234GS AH00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
SCSI device sda: 234441648 512-byte hdwr sectors (120034 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sda: 234441648 512-byte hdwr sectors (120034 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
 sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 >
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
...

Hope that helps,
Chris

On 2/6/07, Zack Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've created a page where I'm putting info about installing
> Slackware Linux 11 on the A105-S4284, which is here:
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~fbui/Linux-on-ToshibaA105.html
>
> I've run into a few problems, particularly the SATA controller.
> The newer Intel driver doesn't work so I have to use the older,
> deprecated one, and that driver doesn't use DMA so it is
> quite slow.
>
> 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family)
> Serial ATA Storage Controller IDE (rev 02)
>
> If anyone has any info on how to get it working
> without using the deprecated driver, I would appreciate
> learning how.
>
> Thanks,
> Zack
>
>
>