[ILUG] IDE in a SATA-only box

[Brendan Kehoe]

Patrick O'Connor wrote:
> On 15/06/07, *Brendan Kehoe* <brendan at zen.org
> <mailto:brendan at zen.org>> wrote:
>
>     I've got a new system with SATA for disks, but would like to be
>     able to
>     use the two 500Gb IDE disks left from the now-deceased predecessor.
>     I've got a Promise TX2 Ultra133 PCI card, but that doesn't seem to
>     co-exist will in the BIOS with the SATA AHCI the BIOS also needs
>     to load up.
>
>
> If you don't need SATA then disable it in the bios.
> If you do need SATA, what exactly happens on booting to lead you to
> say the the card doesn't co-exist with the SATA AHCI? I've set up
> system like this quite a bit and generally the card "bioses" just load
> one after the other.

It says:

No area available for Command List/Command Table/FIS
AHCI BIOS not installed
Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager option ROM v6.0.0.1022 ICH8R
Copyright(C) 2003-06 Intel Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

and hangs after not listing the SATA bus devices.

B