A-Bit AN8-SLI NO SATA

KWhat · l33t Joined: 04 Sep 2005 Posts: 660 Location: Los Angeles

Ok so this is the last abit board i am ever buying, with that said there are 4 sata ports on this thing. Listed as Nvidia CK804 Sata something or other.

On boot i get the following while try to sue the sata_nv driver in kernel

ata1: SATA link up 1.5 SStatus 113 SControl 300
ata1.00: ATA-7 max udma/133 blah balh
ata1.00: ata1 multi count 16
ata1.00: qc timeout ( cmd 0xef )
ata1.00: failed to set xfermode ( err_mask=0x4 )
ata1.00: limiting speed to udma/100
ata1.00: failed to recover some devices...
REPEATED

I would provide additional info but the cable guy came today and decided to replace my cable modem with on that has a built in firewall and now i cant get back online...

Any ideas...?

gentoo_ram · Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 8:56 am Post subject:

Try using the AHCI driver for SATA. Also, set the BIOS to put the SATA controller in AHCI mode. I have a motherboard based on an NVidia chipset. I couldn't get sata_nv to work right, but sata_ahci works great!

KWhat · l33t Joined: 04 Sep 2005 Posts: 660 Location: Los Angeles

Yes i looked and looked for the AHCI mode but for some reason i don't have that mode. I did try switching over to that driver without changing the mode and does not find any devices.

KWhat · l33t Joined: 04 Sep 2005 Posts: 660 Location: Los Angeles

anyone know why adding irqpoll to the boot line seems to resolve the issue?