Norman Diamond wrote: > 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? I assume that ATA_PIIX is set in the configuration.. The lspci -vn and dmesg output from when it fails to detect would be useful. > > -------------------------------------- > 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
