Bug#444182: PATA support broken in ATA_PIIX
I just came across this thread and wanted to report that this bug is
affecting a number of my servers as well.
The servers come from the factory using a PATA flash drive for bootup
and software, and use 4 SATA drives for raid data store. This is a nice
and efficient setup since the SATA drives can be replaced without
affecting the flash OS drive.
This setup worked fine in prior kernel used on these machines (2.6.19).
A few months ago I tried to upgrade the kernel with Debian stock.
Linux debian 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Sun Jul 26 21:25:33 UTC 2009 i686
GNU/Linux
The boot sequence failed with ATA_PIIX not detecting the PATA boot
drive.
This is significant because the Debian kernel cannot be used at all on
these systems.
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