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On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Lindsay Haisley wrote: |
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> Ugh!! This sounds like the roadblock I ran into! The problem |
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> drive, /dev/hda, holds the root filesystem and several others, and |
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> didn't show up at all in /dev. Since the system also has several SATA |
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> drives, I'm using the sata_promise kernel module for these, but the SATA |
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> system on the MB is managed by a Promise chipset, which supposedly |
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> implements hardware RAID but it's proprietary so I'm just using plain |
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> old discrete non-RAID mode. |
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> I have rather a conflict here, since I already have a /dev/sda. |
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> Is there a HOWTO for using libata-supported kernel components, and |
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> configuring them in the kernel? The MB has an ICH5 controller hub, |
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> which I assume handles the PATA IF. lspci shows: |
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> IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02) |
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> The linux kernel here already has CONFIG_ATA_PIIX, which supposedly |
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> talks the lingo of the ICH series I/O controller hub. What else do I |
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> need here, or where can I go to learn more? |
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If you go through the list of drivers in the Sata section, toward the |
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second half of the list, there are Pata drivers. They used to be |
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deprecated, but now they're the only ones that are supported. You just |
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need to find the Pata drivers (in the Sata section) that correspond to |
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what you've got (you'll probably have to look around a bit), and then |
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turn off the entire old Pata section. There should probably be a Pata |
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driver in the new Sata section though that handles Intel PIIX chipset; |
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it's pretty common. |
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The danger that will make you want to keep a rescue CD handy is that |
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it's hard to predict how your devices are going to get enumerated at |
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bootup under these new semantics, or to know whether it will match what |
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you've got in your fstab. If you need a good rescue CD though, I'd |
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recommend System Rescue CD (http://www.sysresccd.org/), which is based |
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on Gentoo and handles about anything. |
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+ James Franck Institute + we know this is not true." -Robert Wilensky |