> If I enable the cs5535-specifc IDE driver, Linux can't find the root > file system. I haven't been able to get dmesg output for this > problem, as the kernel panics. drivers/ide/ problems with CS5535 should go to Jordan. drivers/ata problems to me. > [ 18.518435] hda: SanDisk SDCFBI-128, CFA DISK drive > [ 19.129769] Probing IDE interface ide1... > [ 19.642558] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 > [ 19.643392] hda: max request size: 128KiB IDE finds the device on 0x1F0 > [ 19.643515] hda: 250880 sectors (128 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=980/8/32 > [ 19.643895] hda: hda1 > [ 19.649610] libata version 2.00 loaded. > [ 19.650013] ata: 0x1F0 IDE port busy libata skips it > [ 19.650027] ata: conflict with ide0 > [ 19.650227] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0f.2 to 64 > [ 19.650563] ata1: DUMMY Tejun ought to fix it not to print the above > [ 19.650791] ata2: PATA max UDMA/66 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xEFF8 irq 15 > [ 19.650907] scsi0 : cs5535 > [ 19.651421] scsi1 : cs5535 We probe the slave in libata > [ 26.689644] ata2: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xff) And get stuck because the 2.6.18 code doesn't consider 0xFF as no device and just skip it. If you aren't using the CS5535 driver in drivers/ata then don't compile it in and all will be well. As to the crash - is that the IDE or the new libata driver which crashes on you ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
