I had to buy new motherboard because old one blew up,and I heard Intel is Linux-friendly (thinking of drivers forNIC, graphics, audio, SATA),...So I got DQ965GF. Earlier I had also used Intel's ATA chipset (since year 1999),and the piix driver without problems. But now when I boot with this "production-quality"driver, I get with 2.6.18.3: ata_piix 0000:00:1F:2: MAP [ P0 -- P1 -- ]...ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x214F...and it can't find block devices.2.6.16 also ways "port disabled".What is 0x7F supposed to mean and is it against the specs or something?I have tried various options for ten hours, and I ran out of imagination.Maybe someone can suggest something. First I would like to bootthe system with or without DMA, then optimize later.I have two PATA hard disks connected on the motherboard and no SATA stuffs.I tried to get lspci output in Knoppix, but it freezes after I press enter in the boot menu.And no serial console etc. - 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
