Re: ide broken since 2.3.99-pre9 ?

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org)
Date: Mon Jun 12 2000 - 12:14:02 EST


Try the ac pactches

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Sven LUTHER wrote:

> Hello, ...
>
> i hope this is the right place for stuff like this, so please indicate me the
> right place if it is not so, ...
>
> I own a Iwill XA100+ board with a ALI M1541 chipset and a 20Go UDMA66 IBM
> harddisk.
>
> 2.3.99-pre8 worked fine on this etup, but both 2.399-pre9 and 2.4.0-test1,
> compiled with the same .config don't work. The boot messages show that the
> kernel can't read the partition table, at elast that is the earliest message i
> manage to read, the rest having scrolled up. and since it is my only
> harddisk, i cannot boot into this kernel, thus no way of saving the log to
> file :(((.
>
> i have the disk partitioned with a 6 GB windows/dos/whatever partition, then a
> <1Go root partition, andthe rest of the stuff on a extended partition.
>
> Is this a known problem ? how can it be fixed ?
>
> BTW i have two less important problems :
>
> * i have a new usb trackball, but ti am not able to load the usb-ohci
> module, because it don't find an irq for usb (irq 5 under windows, the
> module reports irq 0 and suggest using pci=biosirq, which don't help.
>
> * (maybe a userland question ?) how comes my board don't autopoweroff when i
> halt it ?
>
> Friendly,
>
> Sven LUTHER
>
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Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy

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