Re: [9fans] SATA controller found by kernel but not 9load

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

the problem with 9load is that it was written before i did
support for the sb600 chipset.  i now have a machine with
that northbridge, but i haven't finished with 9load.

i'm working on it right now.

(p.s. if you feel brave, /n/sources/contrb/quanstro/9loadsb600)

- erik

> Geoff asked about *noahciload in my plan9.ini; no, it is not set. None
> of the *no variables are.
> 
> Gorka asked about my bios: yes, my bios knows about it. I've not got
> any of the legacy compatibility stuff turned on, as my initial
> experiments showed it made them not detected by the kernel, either
> (although there are several modes, and I didn't try them all).
> 
> I tried the bios loading (sdB0), but that was unproductive. No example
> is given, but from the description in the man page I'd expect it to
> parallel sdC0 and look like sdB0!9fat!9pcf. When 9load(8) says about
> sdB0 "partitions are understood", I'm assuming it means in the same
> way sdC0 understands them.
> 
> What's interesting, though, is that giving it sdC0!cdboot!9pccd.gz has
> no effect when I use the on-disk 9load, either (which works fine using
> the one on the cd), with the distributed plan9.ini (which does have
> some *no variables set). More poking to do.