Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932389AbXAIVQP (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jan 2007 16:16:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932385AbXAIVQP (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jan 2007 16:16:15 -0500 Received: from rwcrmhc15.comcast.net ([216.148.227.155]:63817 "EHLO rwcrmhc15.comcast.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932374AbXAIVQP (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jan 2007 16:16:15 -0500 Message-ID: <45A4003A.3080403@wolfmountaingroup.com> Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:51:06 -0700 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050921 Red Hat/1.7.12-1.4.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jeff V. Merkey" CC: Linux kernel Subject: Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18 References: <45A3FF32.1030905@wolfmountaingroup.com> In-Reply-To: <45A3FF32.1030905@wolfmountaingroup.com> 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 Content-Length: 1402 Lines: 37 Jeff V. Merkey wrote: root=/dev/hda2 is what was passed to the kernel from grub. Jeff > > I just finished pulling out a melted IDE flash drive out of a Shuttle > motherboard with the intel 945 chipset which claims to support > SATA and IDE drives concurrently under Linux 2.6.18. > > The chip worked for about 30 seconds before liquifying in the > chassis. I note that the 945 chipset in the shuttle PC had some serious > issues recognizing 2 x SATA devices and a IDE device concurrently. > Are there known problems with the Linux drivers > with these newer chipsets. > > One other disturbing issue was the IDE flash drive was configured (and > recognized) as /dev/hda during bootup, but when > it got to the root mountint, even with root=/dev/hda set, it still > kept thinking the drive was at scsi (ATA) device (08,13) > and kept crashing with VFS cannot find root FS errors. > > 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/ > - 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/