deadwood, the x86 emulator built into the 64 system, will it be able to run all standard "x86" software, or only those compiled with C library ?

@Amiwell79 All I can say is that according to PCITool your chip is in IDE mode. Class = 0x01 means STORAGE, Subclass = 0x01 means IDE. Also ProductID 0x3a20 resolves to non-AHCI mode in Intel ICH10 documentation.

[quote name=deadwood post=4675]@deadwood - @Amiwell79 From PCIToolInfo.txt it looks like your SATA devices are working in IDE mode not in AHCI mode. ahci.device will only recognize drives if SATA is working in AHCI mode.[/quote] i set the sata achi option in the bios and boot the system from the usb key but it does not detect the hd if i want to do an installation

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@Amiwell79 From PCIToolInfo.txt it looks like your SATA devices are working in IDE mode not in AHCI mode. ahci.device will only recognize drives if SATA is working in AHCI mode.

It's a lot of work doing what you are doing. But it is much appreciated. Thank you for improving AROS. It's getting better every day! :)

Good work !

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Hello Everyone, Another update from me. As mentioned last time, right now the main focus is on enabling loading 32-bit libraries under emulator. The general approach is to re-use as many as possible of 32-bit libraries directly while emulating only the minimal needed set. The reason is quite simple: writing emulation code takes time and is prone to have bugs and incompatibilities that need to be found and fixed. So far it is clear that following libraries will have to be emulated: exec, dos, intuition, graphics, cybergraphics and layers. Following libraries can potentially be used as-is: aros, asl, autoinit, commodities, coolimages, crt, diskfont, gadtools, icons, iffp**** keymap, locale, m, muimaster, stdlib, utility, workbench. Attached is a screen shot of debug log of libraries being opened when starting up 32-bit ABIv0 calculator program. So far opening of all libraries has not yet completed - this is current work in progress. If anyone one is interested in details how the prototypes is coded, you can find the source code here: [url]https://github.com/deadwood2/AROS/tree/AoA/workbench/tools/AoA[/url]

it seems to me that it does not work achi device

Well if no of your devices are detected (neither CDROM nor HDDs) that this is a different problem altogether. Have ahci.device ever worked on this hardware? Can you give me PCI vendor ID and product ID of your hardware's AHCI chipset?

if I load the system from the stick with the new device it boots regularly but hdtoolbox does not detect the HDs

I can try from a usb key installation with the updated device I'll let you know

I tried but the cd-rom doesn't work maybe because the achi driver is out of date, I'm not referring to this one you released but the one that is in the latest build

Yes, CDROMs connected to SATA should work. There is code to support them as well as I tested them in VirtualBox. Note however this bug is about wrong disk size reported by ahci.device, so I haven't tested CDROM extensivelly.

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is SATA support

@Amiwell79 What do you mean?

all this is needed for some systems because from the bios I changed the entry from ata to sata ahci but the dvd does not boot