Hi,
I tried to use the new pata drivers on a Dual PII-400Mhz with the
Intel PIIX controller.
Unfortunately the controller doesn't get detected on boot time, the
old IDE drivers do work and see the controller as a PIIX4 chipset,
which is correct.
The mainboard is a Asus P2B with integrated Adaptec SCSI host and the
PIIX controller.
Patrick
> Unfortunately the controller doesn't get detected on boot time, the
> old IDE drivers do work and see the controller as a PIIX4 chipset,
> which is correct.
Please provide kernel version, an lspci -vvxxx, the actual type of
controller if you know it (if not the lspci will show it) and your .config
Remember that you'll beed both scsi disk and the relevant pata driver
support to detect your disks.
Patrick Ale wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to use the new pata drivers on a Dual PII-400Mhz with the
> Intel PIIX controller.
>
> Unfortunately the controller doesn't get detected on boot time, the
> old IDE drivers do work and see the controller as a PIIX4 chipset,
> which is correct.
>
> The mainboard is a Asus P2B with integrated Adaptec SCSI host and the
> PIIX controller.
ata_piix should drive that chipset. Was that driver enabled in the
kernel configuration, and if it's built modular is the initrd, etc. set
up to load it on boot?
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On 2/4/07, Robert Hancock <[email protected]> wrote:
> ata_piix should drive that chipset. Was that driver enabled in the
> kernel configuration, and if it's built modular is the initrd, etc. set
> up to load it on boot?
Hi,
Yep, piix was configured as built-in, I don't use ramdisks.
And, the SD driver is configured built-in aswell.
Hence, this is more or less the same kernel config as I used with my
Gigabyte GA-VAXP Ultra mainboard. The things I changed in this new
config are:
- Enable SMP
- Enable ata_piix
- CPU Type set to Pentium II
Here is my config plus an output of my lspci -vvv
Patrick
On Sunday 04 February 2007 18:20, Patrick Ale wrote:
> On 2/4/07, Robert Hancock <[email protected]> wrote:
> > ata_piix should drive that chipset. Was that driver enabled in the
> > kernel configuration, and if it's built modular is the initrd, etc. set
> > up to load it on boot?
>
> Hi,
>
> Yep, piix was configured as built-in, I don't use ramdisks.
> And, the SD driver is configured built-in aswell.
> Hence, this is more or less the same kernel config as I used with my
> Gigabyte GA-VAXP Ultra mainboard. The things I changed in this new
> config are:
>
> - Enable SMP
> - Enable ata_piix
> - CPU Type set to Pentium II
And this config has clearly:
# CONFIG_ATA_PIIX is not set
Which for a PIIX4 chipset is what you want. Somewhat confusingly:
CONFIG_PATA_MPIIX=y
CONFIG_PATA_OLDPIIX=y
Should be "n", I've been told.
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On 2/4/07, Alistair John Strachan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Which for a PIIX4 chipset is what you want. Somewhat confusingly:
>
> CONFIG_PATA_MPIIX=y
> CONFIG_PATA_OLDPIIX=y
>
> Should be "n", I've been told.
What? No, this cant be. CONFIG_PATA_OLDPIIX is supposed to be the
libsata version for the PIIX IDE driver, which is what i want to use.
CONFIG_ATA_PIIX is the old IDE driver, not the pata_ driver, is it?
> And this config has clearly:
>
> # CONFIG_ATA_PIIX is not set
>
> Which for a PIIX4 chipset is what you want. Somewhat confusingly:
>
> CONFIG_PATA_MPIIX=y
> CONFIG_PATA_OLDPIIX=y
>
> Should be "n", I've been told.
Setthing them as well will cause no problems.
ATA_PIIX drives the Intel PIIX3,PIIX4,ICH series of devices both in PATA
and SATA mode
PATA_MPIIX drives the original mobile PIIX
PATA_OLDPIIX drives the PIIX (the original not PIIX3,4, etc)
People do find that confusing so if there is any rewording for
Configure.help that would have made it easier and more obvious let me know
On 2/4/07, Alan <[email protected]> wrote:
> PATA_OLDPIIX drives the PIIX (the original not PIIX3,4, etc)
>
> People do find that confusing so if there is any rewording for
> Configure.help that would have made it easier and more obvious let me know
>
Okay so.. what do I define now to use libsata with this controller?
I thought PATA_OLDPIIX would be it, like it is just that for VIA,SIL
and Promise.
And, maybe its a good idea to make it so that if you select
PATA_OLDPIIX it automaticly selects the dependencies aswell? I see
this happen a lot with other kernel things, like V4L2 and so.
Obviously just selecting PATA_OLDPIIX makes you have a half-configured
kernel config for this controller, and i used "make menuconfig", I
didnt manually edit the .config file.
On 2/4/07, Patrick Ale <[email protected]> wrote:
Ammmmmm,
not to sound like a wise guy but... CONFIG_ATA_PIIX is the SATA
driver, not the PATA driver.. atleast that is what menuconfig tells me
when I select "Help" when I look at the config options
> I thought PATA_OLDPIIX would be it, like it is just that for VIA,SIL
> and Promise.
OLDPIIX is for "old" PIIX devices only - from pentium era. It does not
cover the later chips at all
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 20:33:39 +0100
"Patrick Ale" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2/4/07, Patrick Ale <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ammmmmm,
>
> not to sound like a wise guy but... CONFIG_ATA_PIIX is the SATA
> driver, not the PATA driver.. atleast that is what menuconfig tells me
> when I select "Help" when I look at the config options
Help says both PATA and SATA, but you are right the title just says SATA
- I'll push a change to make that say PATA and SATA so it is clearer.
Thanks - now I understand why people were getting confused by this.
On 2/4/07, Alan <[email protected]> wrote:
\
> OLDPIIX is for "old" PIIX devices only - from pentium era. It does not
> cover the later chips at all
Well, neither driver works, as you can see in my config I have the
"OLD" driver and the "new" driver, neither driver makes my controller
being detected...
Patrick
On 2/4/07, Patrick Ale <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2/4/07, Alan <[email protected]> wrote:
> \
> > OLDPIIX is for "old" PIIX devices only - from pentium era. It does not
> > cover the later chips at all
Just to make sure, this is a P2 SMP board, Slot A, doesnt even support P3 CPUs.
The board is something like, 5 years old or so. Which driver *should*
work for me?
The board even has *gasp* ISA slots and doesnt support anything more
than UDMA33 :D
It's working, thanks :)
I was confused by this ATA_PIIX driver needing to be enabled, I
genuinly thought and read it was the SATA driver.
Thanks :)
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 20:59:23 +0100
"Patrick Ale" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2/4/07, Patrick Ale <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 2/4/07, Alan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > \
> > > OLDPIIX is for "old" PIIX devices only - from pentium era. It does not
> > > cover the later chips at all
>
> Just to make sure, this is a P2 SMP board, Slot A, doesnt even support P3 CPUs.
> The board is something like, 5 years old or so. Which driver *should*
> work for me?
>
> The board even has *gasp* ISA slots and doesnt support anything more
> than UDMA33 :D
Send an lspci -vvxxx and it'll be easy to tell, or to find out if you
have a variant which has been overlooked
Hi,
It is working since I enabled this ATA_PIIX driver. :)
Appearantly "old" has nothing to do with the age of the mainboard and
it's capabilities.
an UDMA33 board works with the "new" driver even :)
Thanks a lot, next beer/slivovica/palinka is on me :)
Patrick