LIBATA with the patch to ata.h now handles all sectors on hard drives that it recognizes. An example of a hard drive that it recognizes is one that is attached to an Intel ICH7M chipset when hda=noprobe hdc=noprobe have been specified in the boot command. An example of a hard drive that it doesn't recognize is one that is attached to an Intel PIIX4 chipset when hda=noprobe hdc=noprobe have been specified in the boot command. In either case, the boot parameters persuade the old IDE drivers not to grab the controllers. With ICH7M, LIBATA takes over and runs both the hard drive and DVD at full speed. With PIIX4, LIBATA initializes. End of story. Slax can't find its own CD. If I only use hda=noprobe then the old IDE controller assigns hdc to the CD and Slax finds it, but the hard drive is still undetected. Behaviour is the same under VMware as in a genuine old PC. LIBATA's PIIX drivers are built in along with everything else. They just seem not to get executed. What am I missing? -------------------------------------- Power up the Internet with Yahoo! Toolbar. http://pr.mail.yahoo.co.jp/toolbar/ -- 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
