Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265757AbTGABQg (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2003 21:16:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265759AbTGABQg (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2003 21:16:36 -0400 Received: from ns.mock.com ([209.157.146.194]:43203 "EHLO mail.mock.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265757AbTGABQf (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2003 21:16:35 -0400 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20030630175710.01b5be48@mail.mock.com> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 18:30:53 -0700 To: Alan Cox From: Jeff Mock Subject: Re: PROBLEM: 2.4.21 ICH5 SATA related hang during boot Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <1056995562.17567.16.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20030629135412.03c1d940@mail.mock.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20030629135412.03c1d940@mail.mock.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-DCC-meer-Metrics: wobble.mock.com 1011; Body=2 Fuz1=2 Fuz2=2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 849 Lines: 23 At 06:52 PM 6/30/2003 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: >On Sul, 2003-06-29 at 23:37, Jeff Mock wrote: > > I'm running a 2.4.21 kernel on a redhat 9.0 system. > > > > I'm having a problem when using serial ATA drives on an Intel 875P/ICH5 > > motherboard where the kernel will hang at approximately the same place > > in the boot process about 25% of the time. > >Set the bios setting to legacy mode Thank you. That solved the problem, I've rebooted many times with no failures. It's a bit sad to be limited to 4 SATA+PATA devices, but ICH5 SATA seems to work well on 2.4.21 if the BIOS is in legacy mode. jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/