Re: [arch-general] Compiling my own kernel: IDE, SATA...

2008-05-10 Thread Attila
On Donnerstag, 8. Mai 2008 21:20 Carotinho wrote: Yes I think I'm going to switch to using labels! It's really clean and nice, indeed! Sorry, i forgot in my first posting that this is only the half of the story because you can use labels with grub too. If you will have labels for your

Re: [arch-general] Compiling my own kernel: IDE, SATA...

2008-05-10 Thread Carotinho
Hi! Il Saturday 10 May 2008 09:37:43 Attila ha scritto: After this it should not matter if the kernel devs decide to use other device names in the future. -) See you, Attila Ok thanks again:) ciao! Carotinho Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale!

Re: [arch-general] Compiling my own kernel: IDE, SATA...

2008-05-08 Thread Attila
On Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2008 19:13 Carotinho wrote: The currently running system, with the Arch-supplied 2.6.24 kernel, has the disk devices all mapped to a /dev/sd* scheme, even if 3 are IDE and another is SATA. At first sorry that i don't answer your question and gives you instead a hint. I

Re: [arch-general] Compiling my own kernel: IDE, SATA...

2008-05-08 Thread Carotinho
Hi! Il Thursday 08 May 2008 20:46:57 Attila ha scritto: I use for a very long time labels for my partitions and i can say that this is a very good method to avoid problems in such cases instead there be some others too. Yes I think I'm going to switch to using labels! It's really clean and

[arch-general] Compiling my own kernel: IDE, SATA...

2008-05-07 Thread Carotinho
Hi! I'm sure this is an already answered question, but the problem is that I don't know which could be the question whose answer I'm in need of:) After this prologue, the problem is: The currently running system, with the Arch-supplied 2.6.24 kernel, has the disk devices all mapped to a

Re: [arch-general] Compiling my own kernel: IDE, SATA...

2008-05-07 Thread Ryan Sims
At a guess, it sounds like arch is loading a module that's a specific driver for your chipset, while your own kernel is using the generic ata drivers. Take a look at the output of hwd, lspci and such. You also might get some mileage out of googling your motherboard, or poke around on the forums

Re: [arch-general] Compiling my own kernel: IDE, SATA...

2008-05-07 Thread Geir Arveschoug Erikstad
I found this in the Official Arch Linux Install Guide on the wiki: With the current kernel, an important change has been introduced pertaining to the ATA/IDE subsystem. The new pata (Parallel ATA) drivers replace the legacy IDE subsystem, and one important change is that the naming scheme for IDE

Re: [arch-general] Compiling my own kernel: IDE, SATA...

2008-05-07 Thread Carotinho
Hi! Il Wednesday 07 May 2008 21:40:29 Michal Soltys ha scritto: In most simple words - when you compile your kernel, exclude 'ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support' completely. Make sure 'SCSI device support' is in sane condition, and select whatever you need from 'Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel