Re: 2.5.6 IDE oops with i810 chipset

[Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>]

Andre Hedrick wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> 
> 
>>Luigi Genoni wrote:
>>
>>>Due to a lack of time i tried just 2.5.5, which worked very well.
>>>I get the oops while initializing the IDE controller, just after
>>>
>>>hdc: LTN485, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
>>>
>>>and before the expected:
>>>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
>>>
>>>
>>OK thank you very much this helps. I will actually have to fake the
>>detection on my system to think it's the same as yours...
>>One thing for sure: it's not dircetly inside the
>>PCI host initialization, so I wonder why this problem
>>doesn't occur to more people.
>>
> 
> You will soon learn about the way ATAPI removable media violate the rules
> of how the maintain their status and signal lines.  However you already
> knew this information as I am wasting electrons

I think an oops is rather good sign here, since it is
more of a sign of a trival typo mistake or therelike.
If the system where actually going into boot mode and starting
to be flaky then, then I would see more serious trouble...