From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Echtler Subject: Re: Problems (and confusions) with Intel ICH7 SATA controller Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:55:30 +0100 Message-ID: <1170928530.31971.1.camel@lapnavab35.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <1170536373.7892.5.camel@localhost> <45C956CA.80709@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from charlie109.server4you.de ([85.25.2.70]:35902 "EHLO butterbrot.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423154AbXBHJ4D (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 04:56:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: <45C956CA.80709@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org > > I have an Acer Aspire 5550 laptop with Core Solo processor and the Intel > > ICH7 Chipset. Most of the hardware works fine, with the exception of > > suspend-to-ram. > > I have a strong suspicion that the SATA controller is to blame for that, > > as I have tried every possible combination of s2ram parameters and still > > the display stays black upon resume, only the hard disk LED lights up > > and stays that way. > > > > I have seen suggestions to try the ahci driver instead of the ata_piix > > driver, however, as far as I understand this would need switching the > > controller mode in BIOS. The BIOS is, unfortunately, utterly crippled > > and gives almost no options to change anything beyond the system clock. > > > > Is this a known problem with ICH7? Can anybody give me some additional > > hints? > Which version of kernel are you using? That would be 2.6.18. I've also tried 2.6.19, but it had the same problems and the ipw3945 wireless driver didn't work there, so I kept 2.6.18 for the time being. Yours, Florian