Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Debian, amd64 & AHCI issues?
Hi Bart & Stephen,
Stock Debian 4.0 kernels (2.6.18-6). I've tried both amd64 and 686-
bigmem. 686-bigmem panics on boot with reading corrupted library but
works fine with 486. amd64 can't bring up the SATA link.
Some more digging and debugging help from a kernel geek friend showed
that there is a bug in the SB-600 chip. It claims to do 64 bit
addressing but doesn't. So it fails. There is a patch that made it
into 2.6.22 which forced AHCI module to run in 32 bit mode addressing.
So the easiest solution is to switch to the unstable kernel.
Otherwise, I would have build a new kernel.
Regards,
Spencer