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On Thursday 29 July 2010 12:39:46 I wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 28 July 2010 19:14:05 Bill Longman wrote: |
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> > In the Device Drivers section, (this is for 2.6.34!), turn OFF the |
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> > deprecated ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support. That corresponds to |
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> > CONFIG_IDE in your .config. Then, turn ON, Serial ATA and Parallel |
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> > ATA drivers which corresponds to CONFIG_ATA in your .config. Then, |
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> > under Serial ATA, you'll need to turn on ATA SFF and then Intel |
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> > ESB, ICH, PIIX3, PIIX4 PATA/SATA support. |
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> But bear in mind that setting these does not produce a bootable |
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> kernel on my P4 box, as I've said in another thread, so it's |
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> possible that making the suggested changes will introduce more fog |
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> rather than dispelling it. I'm not sure how likely it is though. |
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For the record, this is now fixed. Eventually (this morning) I found a |
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chipset option buried in the kernel config that I'd missed. The IDE disk |
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is now /dev/sda and I can forget about /dev/hda and friends altogether. |
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Rgds |
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Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23. |
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