Re: libata in 2.4.24?

[Erik Steffl]

Samuel Flory wrote:
> Greg Stark wrote:
>
> > Samuel Flory <sflory@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> >
> > >   It's getting harder to find a newly released motherboard without 
> > > onboard
> > > sata.  Not having  libata support means that anyone running 2.4 
> > > unpatched will
> > > be unable to use such systems.
> >
> >
> >
> > My motherboard has a SATA controller and I'm using it in non-legacy 
> > mode with
> > 2.4.23. What is this libata thing I'm supposed to be needing?
>
>   What chipset are you using?  Assumming that hda is your sata drive. 
> What are the results of the following "hdarm -t /dev/hda" "hdparm -dvi 
> /dev/hda"   The ICH5 chipset is the only chipset I've found that works 
> well without libata.

  not for drives >133GB (I have intel D865PERL mb and 250GB matrox, it 
doesn't work without SCSI_ATA (at all), it cannot read/write above 133GB 
without libata patches)

	erik

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