From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <25d6bab9f893d88c9739b992399eaff0@quanstro.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] SATA controller found by kernel but not 9load From: erik quanstrom Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:34:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: <509071940711200624g24959235pec792d4496f0ed86@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0271fa88-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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.