Re: i875/ICH5 IDE and SATA
had the same problem pretty much, same motherboard, tried a few things,
just would not work
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 19:34, David Leggett wrote:
> Hi List
> I am attempting to configure a kernel for a system based on an Asus P4C800
> deluxe motherboard.
> The system was installed successfully with debian-installer (post RC3
> snapshot) except i had to manually place a grub bootblock on the disk to get
> it to boot first time.
>
> The hard disk is SATA and connected to the first channel of the ICH5 sata
> interface on the motherboard, there is a CDRW on Prmary PATA and DVD ROM on
> secondary PATA busses.
>
> The problem so far seems to be that it is impossible to load both the driver
> for PATA (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX) and the driver for piix SATA
> (CONFIG_SCSI_ATA_PIIX) the system fails to boot, giving irq errors and ata
> command timeouts.
> However if i do not compile support for PATA the system boots completely
> unfortunately there means there are no availible optical devices.
> If PATA support is compiled as a module (CONFIG_SCSI_ATA_PIIX=m)
> the system boots further than for =y but the module is automatically loaded
> (probably by hotplug) and the machine gives out the same irq errors as
> before.
> (Note: SATA must be compiled in as / is on sata and i do not want to use an
> initrd)
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