Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932271AbXAIWgR (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jan 2007 17:36:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932432AbXAIWgQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jan 2007 17:36:16 -0500 Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net ([204.127.192.83]:53615 "EHLO rwcrmhc13.comcast.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932271AbXAIWgP (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jan 2007 17:36:15 -0500 Message-ID: <45A412FE.9000302@wolfmountaingroup.com> Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 15:11:10 -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: Auke Kok 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> <45A4003A.3080403@wolfmountaingroup.com> <45A40B83.2060009@foo-projects.org> In-Reply-To: <45A40B83.2060009@foo-projects.org> 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: 1840 Lines: 58 Auke Kok wrote: > Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > >> 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. >> > > it sounds like someone switched the BIOS IDE setting from > ide-compatible/legacy to AHCI or similar, a not uncommon option in the > sata controllers on those boards. > > None of that would explain the melting of anything of course. Would be if pin 20 were powered for some reason (which it should NOT be). Jeff > > Cheers, > > Auke > - > 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/