From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: linas@austin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas) Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.21.1: ide-pci is not finding ide controller. Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 16:53:56 -0500 Message-ID: <20070523215356.GD5921@austin.ibm.com> References: <20070523201118.GZ5921@austin.ibm.com> <4654A375.4080807@ru.mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from e36.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.154]:50513 "EHLO e36.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755869AbXEWVyB (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 May 2007 17:54:01 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4654A375.4080807@ru.mvista.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Sergei Shtylyov Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 12:26:29AM +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > Hello. > > Linas Vepstas wrote: > >I've got a rather old x86 box that I'm booting 2.6.21.1 on; > >this kernel is not finding an ide controller on it. > > >The motherboard has 4 ide controllers total; two olde-fashioned > >ones (PIIX4, using the original 40-pin IDE ribbon cable) and two > > You should have said "channels". PIIX4 has only one IDE controller. Right. I wrote "drive" in the first email, and then quickly changed that :-) > Actually, it was a bug that I've introduced into > drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.c -- the patch has been already merged into > 2.6.22-rc1: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fdb0d72be4decaade6cedb5012ddd679a4817b5f OK, great, thanks! I'll give this a spin. If it works, I'll suggest backporting it to the stable branch 2.6.21.2. --linas