On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 03:45:45PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:

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Do you know why the ahci driver won't load?

Undoubtedly the chip is being used in "combined mode",
to support a PATA ATAPI device on the second channel.

For that matter, the primary HD is probably actually PATA,
perhaps with a SATA bridge on the notebook M/B.

Very very common arrangement these days -- practically all
Sonoma Centrino chipset notebooks are set up like this.

Yeah, I'd guess something along those lines. The CD drive presents as 
SATA, but looks more like a PATA part. pci_request_regions fails when 
trying to load ahci. It's a Sonoma system (Dell Latitude D610)

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