From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264170AbUEDAzh (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2004 20:55:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264173AbUEDAzh (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2004 20:55:37 -0400 Received: from ns.clanhk.org ([69.93.101.154]:62624 "EHLO mail.clanhk.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264170AbUEDAza (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2004 20:55:30 -0400 Message-ID: <4096EA32.10201@clanhk.org> Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 19:56:18 -0500 From: "J. Ryan Earl" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Booting off of IDE while using different libata drives on same southbridge References: <200403121826.21442.markus.kossmann@inka.de> <200403121902.44371.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> <4096B752.9050602@clanhk.org> <200405032344.58597.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> In-Reply-To: <200405032344.58597.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: >On Monday 03 of May 2004 23:19, J. Ryan Earl wrote: > > >>I am having a similar problem to what Markus Kossmann wrote about, but >>with the VIA Southbridge (Asus K8V). My situation is similar, but a >>little different. I would like to boot off a PATA drive attached to the >>Southbridge, but use libata for a couple SATA drives attached to the >>same Southbridge. >> >>Is this still not possible? I also tried hde/hdg=noprobe options, but >>they didn't help the situation. It appears the only way to get the >>drives on sata_via is to boot off of them. Am I correct in thinking >>this is the only way to go about this? >> >> > >Did you actually tried it (booting off of them)? >[ I can't see how this can help. ] > > With libata linked into the kernel, and ide as a module, I can boot off of libata. >Just don't compile-in generic IDE PCI driver which controls your SATA drives >(or don't load this module if you're using initrd). > > As I said, I want to boot off of the PATA drives attached to the southbridge. To boot of them, I have to have the IDE driver compiled into the kernel; if I do this I can't use libata on that southbridge, the IDE driver take precedence for the serial ata channels. -ryan