Bug#571035: [an older bugreport] ide controller not supported by libata, but was supported by ide_generic [Was: installationsreport: grub2: machine doesn't boot]
Hello,
I returned back to this to try, if something has happened on this
in the last time (I thought, maybe a new kernel release has fixed this
or something like that ...)
The problem is this:
I have an old laptop here, where the ide disk was supported in the
past over the old ide_xxx drivers.
While these drivers seem to be no longer supported on the long
run, I tried if I can get ide running with the new libata drivers.
And the answer is No.
Further investigation gave the info, that this particular ide controller
was supported by the ide_gd kernel module.
Don't know what driver obsoleted the ide_gd module, I tried all of the
ata_xxx modules available on a recent debian-installer netinst cd,
and none was able to bring the ide controller up (so no ide disk
visible).
So this ide controller is no longer supported by the linux kernel.
(you can find this in the history of this report several times)
If you ask now: ok, what controller does your machine have?
I will have to answer: well, I don't know exactly, the output of
lspci is this:
~ # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems CPU to PCI bridge (rev a0)
00:04.0 VGA compatible controller: Chips and Technologies F65555 HiQVPro (rev c6)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 02)
00:11.0 Communication controller: Toshiba America Info Systems FIR Port Type-0 (rev 21)
00:13.0 Cardbus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97 (rev 20)
00:13.1 Cardbus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97 (rev 20)
So, there is no ide controller listed.
And ide disc is accessible at this time via ide_generic:
~ # ls /dev/hda*
/dev/hda /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2
This system outputs were created on 2.6.37-2-486 from a daily build netinst cd
from 20110407.
The machine is an Toshiba Satellite 320CDS laptop.
Don't know what to do with this bug (it has a long history already,
starting with Squeeze-alpha1 ...):
Close it and file a new one against the kernel?
Holger
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