SX8 docs (was: The SX4 challenge)

bitrotted and the kernel driver offers poor performance or data corruption. IIRC it's not part of libata but its own block device, although you were considering porting it to get ATAPI support? Thanks, James Andrewartha -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: SC1200 failure in 2.6.23 and 2.6.24-rc1-git10

>>> ata1: EH complete >>> unable to read partition table >>> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk >>> scx200_wdt: timer margin 60 seconds >>> cpuidle: using governor ladder >>> enabling scx200 high-res timer (1 MHz +0 ppm) >>> TCP cubic registered >>> Time: scx200_hrt clocksource has been installed. >>> NET: Registered protocol family 1 >>> NET: Registered protocol family 17 >>> Using IPI Shortcut mode >>> VFS: Cannot open root device "" or unknown-block(8,18) >>> Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available >>> partitions: >>> 08001000944 sda driver: sd >>> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown- >>> block(8,18) >>> >> (+linux-ide) (+alan, tejun) >> So this has never worked on any known kernel? > > It is working now on old ide code (not libata). Can you post the dmesg and hdparm -I of a working boot using the old ide code? The thing that stuck out to me (as just a reader of linux-ide) was that the problem involves MWDMA and CF, which have had problems (although not the same as this one) in the past: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/22058 and http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/22400 -- James Andrewartha - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/