From: Marco Gerards <mgerards@xs4all.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: ata.mod hangs (Re: Some grub2 problems/questions)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:11:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871w8j4a33.fsf@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <478A0677.5030407@nic.fi> (Vesa Jääskeläinen's message of "Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:39:19 +0200")
Vesa Jääskeläinen <chaac@nic.fi> writes:
> Robert Millan wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 04:14:38PM -0800, walt wrote:
>>> Unfortunately, ata.mod still doesn't recognize the disk on the Promise
>>> sata controller. But, that's expected at this point?
>>
>> Yes. Some SATA controllers emulate PATA, but not all do.
>
> I suppose there are multiple controller on the board and we need PCI
> to detect extra ones.
Right, adding PCI support will solve most of our problems in ata.mod.
Currently, a reset is sent to each device. If PCI is used, every ATA
device can be found (if they support the ATA/ATAPI standard). Besides
that, the reset might cause problems. Perhaps the ATA driver can even
coexist with biosdisk.mod in this case...
--
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-15 11:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-26 20:26 Some grub2 problems/questions walt
2007-12-27 10:05 ` Robert Millan
2007-12-27 11:03 ` Robert Millan
2007-12-27 17:33 ` walt
2007-12-30 13:46 ` ata.mod hangs (Re: Some grub2 problems/questions) Robert Millan
2008-01-13 0:14 ` walt
2008-01-13 10:50 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-13 12:39 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-01-15 11:11 ` Marco Gerards [this message]
2008-01-13 19:10 ` walt
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