SATA Upgrade (re-post after HW problem was resolved)

[NoOp]

On 08/07/2008 08:07 PM, Verde Denim wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:48 PM, NoOp <sniprudeemailquoting> wrote:

> 
>  fdisk -l shows the IDE (80GB) and the first SATA (500GB) drives.
> dmesg|grep -A 5 sata_sil shows the same, although I'm a bit confused by what
> I see there - it seems to indicate that /dev/sda is within this data,
> although I know that /dev/sda1,2,5 are the 80GB IDE drive.
> 
> NoOp - I don't see any sort of option in this BIOS to do this - "After
> activating AHCI in the bios"
> But, can I change add "pci=nomsi" to the boot line after the install, and
> would the system 'right' itself ? It seems from reading these that they are
> only done on an installation (so I would essentially reinstall the OS)
> 
> Jack

No idea, I don't have SATA. I only ran across those looking up something
else & thought that you might find it helpful to have a read through the
bugs. It certainly couldn't hurt to try pci=nomsi at boot (just use the
'e' edit function in the grub menu), and if you find it works then add
it to your /boot/grub/menu.lst. Be sure to take some time and actually
_read_ through the bugs; you're likely to find something in them that
might be helpful.