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I'm sending this message to Ben Rietbroek who is working on some OS2AHCI points.

One thing that keeps coming up in some cases is that on systems with an Intel disc controller you need the /R option specified. In some cases the system is able to boot with from the CD but it does not recognize the hard disc. Using the /R option fixes.

In the documentation this is written: /r Reset ports during initialization (default = off

unless the [Intel] AHCI controller was found to

be

initialized by the BIOS in SATA mode)

My question what would the result be to do this by default (to always initialize) the controller. Or will this just "fix" some systems (no user action needed) and make other systems hang ?

No audio cd will play using any player. Neither cdrecord nor RSJ Copy Wizard is able to burn audio tracks.

iso images of Video DVDs and data CDs and DVDs burn ok. Video DVDs play ok and data CDs and DVDs can be read. In all of these cases that work it takes an inordinate amount of time for the drive to become ready as reported in ticket #35.

I include a startup log as well as logs of attempts to play an audio track using both CDPM and RSJ CdView? and an attempt to burn an audio CD using cdrecord.

I installed the v1.31 ahci package and rebooted.

After several attempts at booting - a good clue there is a problem somewhere - I finally got to a working Desktop.

I did notice with all the above (re)boots that booting took noticably longer than when not using the os2ahci.add driver - over a minute longer.

I have read that AHCI is faster for drive access than IDE. That does not seem to apply here, if anything drive access is slower.

I also see a problem with accessing my SATA DVD Burner. Having loaded the disc and waited for the drive LED to stop flashing I clicked on the DVD Burner icon to open the drive window. The system "froze" for over 30 seconds - the Desktop was totally un-responsive, mouse pointer moved but nothing could be selected - and then the drive window opened to show the contents. If I Right Mouse Button on the drive it takes a very similar amount of time for the popup menu to appear - and the system is "frozen" while waiting.

I have attached 2 logs:-

BOOT_dadzone-20131009-ahci-1.31.log is the boot log to try and ascertain if there is a problem during boot.

RUNTIME_dadzone-20131009-ahci-1.31.log is a runtime log to try and ascertain why it takes so long to access my SATA DVD Burner.