From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@9fans.net From: erik quanstrom Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:16:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <47F03911.7010400@arcepi.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Installing Plan 9 on a ICH9 SATA controller. Topicbox-Message-UUID: 858864ca-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 you're welcome. i'm glad you had success. i apologize that things aren't yet seamless. i think you've uncovered some dirt in the cracks. intel's zeal for multiple programming interfaces does cause trouble in some cases. happy hacking. - erik > Thank you, Erik, :) it seems that your driver is working perfectly. The > problem must be in the driver Plan 9 uses when the controller is working > in legacy mode (I suppose sdiahci isn't responsible for that). > > Apart from that, I had problems with multiprocessor mode (but I think > it's because I use the vesa video driver). And I had problems also with > the kernel the installation copied, wich seemed to use kfs instead of > fossil. > > Why doesn't install floppy include the sdiahci driver? > > I don't know if other people have problems installing Plan 9 because of > this. In my case, the main problem was that install CD wouldn't boot in > AHCI mode. And if I didn't use AHCI, I got I/O errors during install.