Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18

["Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com>]

Jeff V. Merkey wrote:

root=/dev/hda2 is what was passed to the kernel from grub.

Jeff

>
> I just finished pulling out a melted IDE flash drive out of a Shuttle 
> motherboard with the intel 945 chipset which claims to support
> SATA and IDE drives concurrently under Linux 2.6.18.
>
> The chip worked for about 30 seconds before liquifying in the 
> chassis.  I note that the 945 chipset in the shuttle PC had some serious
> issues recognizing 2 x SATA devices and a IDE device concurrently.   
> Are there known problems with the Linux drivers
> with these newer chipsets.
>
> One other disturbing issue was the IDE flash drive was configured (and 
> recognized) as /dev/hda during bootup, but when
> it got to the root mountint, even with root=/dev/hda set, it still 
> kept thinking the drive was at scsi (ATA) device (08,13)
> and kept crashing with VFS cannot find root FS errors.
>
> Jeff
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