From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ken Moffat Subject: Re: "ide=reverse" do we still need this? Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:32:49 +0000 Message-ID: <20080213153249.GA21749@deepthought> References: <20080213001506.GA13933@kroah.com> <20080213024329.GA6912@deepthought> <20080213044304.GA10101@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from mtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.47]:16781 "EHLO mtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1765620AbYBMPcx convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:32:53 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080213044304.GA10101@kroah.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Greg KH Cc: bzolnier@gmail.com, muli@il.ibm.com, jdmason@kudzu.us, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@x86-64.org On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 08:43:04PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: >=20 > Can't you just boot with /dev/disk/by-id/ and an initramfs to not hav= e > to worry about such a thing in the future? >=20 Can comebody remind me what the initramfs is for in that situation, please ? From the little I've noticed, I thought the /dev/disk/by-id part went into fstab ? At the moment, I just build the things I think I need in to the kernel on that box, without modules. Anyway, I'll try to find time to read my notes to see if I can identify what happened/when, and to take the box down again so I can try to confirm exactly what the problem is, if it still exists. I certainly won't be taking it down until I've written my weekly backups to tape at the weekend, so maybe not before next week. > Have you tried the PATA drivers instead of IDE to see if this solves = the > "moves around" issue? If they work, then you would not need the comm= and > line option at all. My previous kernel was 2.18-series, I think at that time they were still under development. This box handles the backups for my various desktop boxes, which is why I'm very conservative about changing it. I guess the drivers are stable now, I'll maybe give that a go (depending on time). Ken --=20 das eine Mal als Trag=F6die, das andere Mal als Farce