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From: "Andries E. Brouwer" <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Subject: Re: ide boot failure 2.6.36/2.6.28 - 2.6.27 works
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 02:29:16 +0100
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Hi Alan,

> On a PCI box however you should always have a matching PCI driver,

True - in this case PIIX4, and selecting it makes things work
(but was not required earlier).

> If you have a PCI ATA driver which is not handled by any of the libata
> drivers and is not known by ata_generic then please let me know.

Also libata needs the additional selection of PIIX4,
but then works fine. (Of course all devices are renamed.)

Andries


> if its hitting a lot of people

Maybe a few hundred visible via Google.
One in every hundred thousand users?

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Post by Thomas Ingerslev 2009-09-02
I have been struggling with error this fore quite a while,
and have finally found a solution.
... I ended up with just adding ide_generic.probe_mask=0x03 ...