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 Holger,
FYI on my workaround status. I've done two types of installations. An
upgrade and clean install and both work as long as you add ide-generic
to the modules file so it can be found after the first boot.
I have no idea what direction a real fix will take considering the
desire to move away from ide-generic.
Thanks,
Mark
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:18 +0200, "Holger Wansing"
<linux@wansing-online.de> wrote:
> 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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