From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vlad Codrea Subject: Re: IDE Problem with old Gateway laptop (1998 solo 2300) Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:03:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <884696.96067.qm@web54404.mail.yahoo.com> References: <1193749336.2360.88.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Received: from web54404.mail.yahoo.com ([206.190.49.134]:34019 "HELO web54404.mail.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755726AbXJ3VEB (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:04:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1193749336.2360.88.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Declan Moriarty , Alan Cox Cc: linux-ide --- Declan Moriarty wrote: > On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 11:20 +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > 1998 is well into the world of ATA (IDE is just a confusing > othername) > Yeah I read it as 'faster ide' but the board/disk won't do it. The > disk > seems up to it, but something else is dodgy. > > > > From your info there isn't enough to debug this. > > > > Boot the kernel with initcall_debug=1 > > > > and it will spew a list of each initializer as it calls it, you > can then > > see which is the last called and look it up in the symbol table > ide_init ... > Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision 7.00alpha2 > ide assuming 33 Mhz > ide_generic_init > Hitatchi_DK226A-32 ATA disk drive > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 on irq 14 > *** ide_generic_init took 1446 msec to run***(asterisks mine) > > > idedisk_init > hda: max request size:128KiB > hda: 6332256 sectors (3242 MB) w/128 KiB Cache CHS=6282/16/63 > hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 > *** Ran for 18 msec*** (asterisks mine) The above output seems to indicate that the kernel is still relying on drivers/ide instead of libata. To change this, I'd suggest setting "CONFIG_IDE=n" and "CONFIG_ATA=y" in your .config before compiling the kernel. Also, make sure everything that starts with CONFIG_ATA, CONFIG_PATA, CONFIG_SATA, and CONFIG_SCSI is set to "y". Vlad __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com