From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263498AbTJBV5B (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2003 17:57:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263509AbTJBV5B (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2003 17:57:01 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:9353 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263498AbTJBV45 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2003 17:56:57 -0400 Message-ID: <3F7C9F15.5000602@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 17:56:37 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erik Steffl CC: Martin List-Petersen , Andrew Marold , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox , Bernhard Rosenkraenzer Subject: Re: Serial ATA on Dell Dimension 8300 (Was: Re: Serial ATA support in 2.4.22) References: <3F7AEF15.1070301@pobox.com> <3F7B0209.7070509@pobox.com> <1065130970.5842.193.camel@loke> <3F7C9E1F.2020709@bigfoot.com> In-Reply-To: <3F7C9E1F.2020709@bigfoot.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Erik Steffl wrote: > Martin List-Petersen wrote: > >> I've got trouble with both 2.4.22-ac1, ac4 and 2.4.22-bk25 + newest sata >> patch. (Debian Sid) >> >> When i try to boot ac1 or ac4 from harddisk. The kernel would fail by >> endless stating: >> kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-0000, errno = 8 >> on screen. >> >> Do i boot the same kernel from floppy or cd (syslinux/isolinux - dmesg >> for ac4 attached, bootet from cd) it boots without trouble, mounts the >> harddisk etc. >> >> The machine is a Dell Dimension 8300 (practically the same as the >> Precision 360), with Intel 875 chipset (ICH5 SATA controllers). >> In bk25+sata patch reiserfs seems to be broken (dmesg attached), i >> will try an older version tomorrow. >> >> I simply can't figure out, whats wrong here. > > > I have intel D865PERL mb (close but not same as you have, I think they > have the same sata controller), I used the 2.4.21-ac4 kernel, with > SCSI_ATA enabled (otherwise system freezes right after it detects HDs). > I also had to use libata5 patches from Jeff Garzik to be able to use > drive >137GB (not sure whether libata5 are in one of the more recent > kernels or ac patches). Basically I need to get off my butt and send Alan and Bero some updates... Latest patches against mainline (2.4.22-bkXX and 2.6.0-testX-bkXX) are always posted at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/ and the latest Fedora Core (what used to be Red Hat Linux) supports it out of the box as well. It does take a bit of potentially non-trivial hand merging to patch successfully into -ac tree... :( Jeff