System unresponsive during HDD activity

[Gilboa Davara]

On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 00:33 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote:
> On 09/18/2010 10:01 PM, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 19:17 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote:
> >> It turns out that if AHCI mode is enabled, my DVD drive disappears.
> >> Apparently with normal kernel, it's detected as PATA - and with the
> >> patch not detected at all.
> >> Figures
> > I expected that.
> > On my machines, switching to AHCI disables DVD boot, but the DVD remains
> > accessible.
> >
> > Add it to the bug report.
> > In theory, enabling AHCI on port should not effect the other port.
> > (Unless there's a BIOS issue)
> 
> It's hard to tell. They say this chipset doesn't officially support AHCI 
> mode anyway, so that could have something to do with it.
> Not sure if it's worth messing around with, after all..
> 

Understood.

- Gilboa