Re: IDE Problem with old Gateway laptop (1998 solo 2300)

2007-10-31 Thread Vlad Codrea
--- Declan Moriarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > piix_init > scsi0: ata_piix > scsi1: ata_piix > ata1: PATA max udma/33 cmd 0x000101f0 ctl 0x000103f6 bmdma > 0x0001fcd0 > irq 14 > ata2: PATA max udma/33 cmd 0x00010170 ctl 0x00010376 bmdma > 0x0001fcd8 > irq 15 > ATA1.0

Re: IDE Problem with old Gateway laptop (1998 solo 2300)

2007-10-31 Thread Alan Cox
> kjournald starting Commit interval 5 seconds > VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly > Freeing unused kernel memory: 168k freed > (keyboard still echoed onscreen, disk parked) > > Adding init=/bin/bash is no better. So its the user space which is broken. Make sure the u

Re: IDE Problem with old Gateway laptop (1998 solo 2300)

2007-10-31 Thread Declan Moriarty
> The above output seems to indicate that the kernel is still relying on > drivers/ide instead of libata. To change this, I'd suggest setting > "CONFIG_IDE=n" and "CONFIG_ATA=y" in your .config before compiling the > kernel. Also, make sure everything that starts with CONFIG_ATA, > CONFIG_PATA, CO

Re: IDE Problem with old Gateway laptop (1998 solo 2300)

2007-10-30 Thread Vlad Codrea
--- Declan Moriarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 11:20 +, Alan Cox wrote: > > 1998 is well into the world of ATA (IDE is just a confusing > othername) > Yeah I read it as 'faster ide' but the board/disk won't do it. The > disk > seems up to it, but something else is dodgy

Re: IDE Problem with old Gateway laptop (1998 solo 2300)

2007-10-30 Thread Declan Moriarty
On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 11:20 +, Alan Cox wrote: > > I really doubt if libata alone would do much for me, as the disk and > > bios doesn't really want to know about ata at all. We're 1998 here, > > remember. ATA has to be disabled for this to read the disk at all. > > 1998 is well into the worl

Re: IDE Problem with old Gateway laptop (1998 solo 2300)

2007-10-29 Thread Alan Cox
> I really doubt if libata alone would do much for me, as the disk and > bios doesn't really want to know about ata at all. We're 1998 here, > remember. ATA has to be disabled for this to read the disk at all. 1998 is well into the world of ATA (IDE is just a confusing othername) >From your info

Re: IDE Problem with old Gateway laptop (1998 solo 2300)

2007-10-29 Thread Declan Moriarty
On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 20:13 -0700, Vlad Codrea wrote: > Hi, > > Have you tried compiling only libata in the kernel? Libata, being > newer, might work on your laptop even if the old drivers/ide does not. One of the kernels has that compiled in, along with drivers. It's a one-size-fits-all kernel,

Re: IDE Problem with old Gateway laptop (1998 solo 2300)

2007-10-28 Thread Declan Moriarty
On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 11:21 +0100, Declan Moriarty wrote: > > > This laptop currently has > > > hda1 - windows 2000 2 Gigs > > > hda4 - linux system 1 Gig > > > > > > The linux system uses kernel-2.6.22.6, uClibc-0.9.29 & gcc-4.1.2, and > > > was compiled on a box here with a uname hack, as the

Re: IDE Problem with old Gateway laptop (1998 solo 2300)

2007-10-26 Thread Declan Moriarty
On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 21:11 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > Hi, > > On Thursday 25 October 2007, Declan Moriarty wrote: > > Hi, > > > > You're down as the maintainer of the ide code, and I'm hoping for a > > diagnosis. This mail is largely because I'm sure you're more familiar > > with