From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sami Farin Subject: Intel DQ965GF experiences Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:42:43 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <28592001.1164670963316.JavaMail.apache@eni-cpps11.sth.basefarm.net> Reply-To: Sami Farin Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eni-mailout01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.148.7]:30181 "EHLO eni-mailout01.sth.basefarm.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758622AbWK0Xmp (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:42:45 -0500 Received: from [10.7.4.193] (port=38892 helo=eni-cpps11.sth.basefarm.net) by eni-mailout01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Goq7Y-00076N-3o for linux-ide@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:42:44 +0100 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38888 helo=eni-cpps11.sth.basefarm.net) by eni-cpps11.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Goq7X-0004r0-N9 for linux-ide@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:42:43 +0100 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org I had to buy new motherboard because old one blew up,and I heard Intel is Linux-friendly (thinking of drivers forNIC, graphics, audio, SATA),...So I got DQ965GF. Earlier I had also used Intel's ATA chipset (since year 1999),and the piix driver without problems. But now when I boot with this "production-quality"driver, I get with 2.6.18.3: ata_piix 0000:00:1F:2: MAP [ P0 -- P1 -- ]...ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x214F...and it can't find block devices.2.6.16 also ways "port disabled".What is 0x7F supposed to mean and is it against the specs or something?I have tried various options for ten hours, and I ran out of imagination.Maybe someone can suggest something. First I would like to bootthe system with or without DMA, then optimize later.I have two PATA hard disks connected on the motherboard and no SATA stuffs.I tried to get lspci output in Knoppix, but it freezes after I press enter in the boot menu.And no serial console etc.