Re: i875/ICH5 IDE and SATA
> On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 19:34, David Leggett wrote:
> > 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)
What if you don't include the PIIX PATA module, but only use the
generic PATA IDE module... that should support your optical drives
just fine (not optimal, but it works)
And then use the PIIX-Sata module for the disks...
(Otherwise can't help... don't have any sata systems in the building)
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