Re: ATA update

[Marco Gerards <mgerards@xs4all.nl>]

Hi Felix,

Felix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de> writes:

>> One minute ago I committed a patch to improve ATA support.
>> 
> Probable better if I just send you know a mail instead of telling on
> IRC:
>
> This is shown for device 4,0 and 4,1
> PCI Dev (0,8,0) compat=1 rega=0x9e0=regb=0xbe0
>
> My first SATA RAID Disk is fully recognized i.e. it shows the
> ST3808110AS name and Firmware 2AAA which I can find in dmesg.
>
> For device 4,1 it only shows "ATA detected" but nothing more, it goes
> then to device 5,0.

Most likely something failed in grub_ata_identify.  you might want to
add more debugging information there.

> ls (ata8) shows partition table
> ls (ata8,1) or (ata8,2) unknown filesystem

Can grub-emu deal with these filesystems?

> But that's probable right, if your ata.mod works more then Linux instead
> of the biosdisk.mod which works more then yeah BIOS ;)

Hm?

> I just tried to mount /dev/sda1 which is NTFS and syslog shows $MFT
> corrupted (ntfs-3g).

Also on biosdisk.

> So I hope that GRUB will still have the biosdisk.mod for guys like me on
> a dmraid (in Linux terms) or fake hardware motherboard RAID ;)

Yes.

--
Marco