Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-05 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi, It is working since I enabled this ATA_PIIX driver. :) Appearantly "old" has nothing to do with the age of the mainboard and it's capabilities. an UDMA33 board works with the "new" driver even :) Thanks a lot, next beer/slivovica/palinka is on me :) Patrick - To unsubscribe from this

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-05 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi, It is working since I enabled this ATA_PIIX driver. :) Appearantly old has nothing to do with the age of the mainboard and it's capabilities. an UDMA33 board works with the new driver even :) Thanks a lot, next beer/slivovica/palinka is on me :) Patrick - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-04 Thread Alan
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 20:59:23 +0100 "Patrick Ale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/4/07, Patrick Ale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2/4/07, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > \ > > > OLDPIIX is for "old" PIIX devices only - from pentium era. It does not > > > cover the later chips at all > >

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-04 Thread Patrick Ale
It's working, thanks :) I was confused by this ATA_PIIX driver needing to be enabled, I genuinly thought and read it was the SATA driver. Thanks :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-04 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/4/07, Patrick Ale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/4/07, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: \ > OLDPIIX is for "old" PIIX devices only - from pentium era. It does not > cover the later chips at all Just to make sure, this is a P2 SMP board, Slot A, doesnt even support P3 CPUs. The board is

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-04 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/4/07, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: \ OLDPIIX is for "old" PIIX devices only - from pentium era. It does not cover the later chips at all Well, neither driver works, as you can see in my config I have the "OLD" driver and the "new" driver, neither driver makes my controller being

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-04 Thread Alan
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 20:33:39 +0100 "Patrick Ale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/4/07, Patrick Ale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Amm, > > not to sound like a wise guy but... CONFIG_ATA_PIIX is the SATA > driver, not the PATA driver.. atleast that is what menuconfig tells me > when I select

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-04 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/4/07, Patrick Ale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Amm, not to sound like a wise guy but... CONFIG_ATA_PIIX is the SATA driver, not the PATA driver.. atleast that is what menuconfig tells me when I select "Help" when I look at the config options - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-04 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/4/07, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: PATA_OLDPIIX drives the PIIX (the original not PIIX3,4, etc) People do find that confusing so if there is any rewording for Configure.help that would have made it easier and more obvious let me know Okay so.. what do I define now to use libsata

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-04 Thread Alan
> And this config has clearly: > > # CONFIG_ATA_PIIX is not set > > Which for a PIIX4 chipset is what you want. Somewhat confusingly: > > CONFIG_PATA_MPIIX=y > CONFIG_PATA_OLDPIIX=y > > Should be "n", I've been told. Setthing them as well will cause no problems. ATA_PIIX drives the Intel

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-04 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/4/07, Alistair John Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Which for a PIIX4 chipset is what you want. Somewhat confusingly: CONFIG_PATA_MPIIX=y CONFIG_PATA_OLDPIIX=y Should be "n", I've been told. What? No, this cant be. CONFIG_PATA_OLDPIIX is supposed to be the libsata version for the

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-04 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Sunday 04 February 2007 18:20, Patrick Ale wrote: > On 2/4/07, Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ata_piix should drive that chipset. Was that driver enabled in the > > kernel configuration, and if it's built modular is the initrd, etc. set > > up to load it on boot? > > Hi, > > Yep,

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-04 Thread Robert Hancock
Patrick Ale wrote: Hi, I tried to use the new pata drivers on a Dual PII-400Mhz with the Intel PIIX controller. Unfortunately the controller doesn't get detected on boot time, the old IDE drivers do work and see the controller as a PIIX4 chipset, which is correct. The mainboard is a Asus P2B

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-04 Thread Alan
> Unfortunately the controller doesn't get detected on boot time, the > old IDE drivers do work and see the controller as a PIIX4 chipset, > which is correct. Please provide kernel version, an lspci -vvxxx, the actual type of controller if you know it (if not the lspci will show it) and your

More pata_ stuff

2007-02-04 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi, I tried to use the new pata drivers on a Dual PII-400Mhz with the Intel PIIX controller. Unfortunately the controller doesn't get detected on boot time, the old IDE drivers do work and see the controller as a PIIX4 chipset, which is correct. The mainboard is a Asus P2B with integrated

More pata_ stuff

2007-02-04 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi, I tried to use the new pata drivers on a Dual PII-400Mhz with the Intel PIIX controller. Unfortunately the controller doesn't get detected on boot time, the old IDE drivers do work and see the controller as a PIIX4 chipset, which is correct. The mainboard is a Asus P2B with integrated

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-04 Thread Alan
Unfortunately the controller doesn't get detected on boot time, the old IDE drivers do work and see the controller as a PIIX4 chipset, which is correct. Please provide kernel version, an lspci -vvxxx, the actual type of controller if you know it (if not the lspci will show it) and your .config

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-04 Thread Robert Hancock
Patrick Ale wrote: Hi, I tried to use the new pata drivers on a Dual PII-400Mhz with the Intel PIIX controller. Unfortunately the controller doesn't get detected on boot time, the old IDE drivers do work and see the controller as a PIIX4 chipset, which is correct. The mainboard is a Asus P2B

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-04 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Sunday 04 February 2007 18:20, Patrick Ale wrote: On 2/4/07, Robert Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ata_piix should drive that chipset. Was that driver enabled in the kernel configuration, and if it's built modular is the initrd, etc. set up to load it on boot? Hi, Yep, piix was

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-04 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/4/07, Alistair John Strachan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which for a PIIX4 chipset is what you want. Somewhat confusingly: CONFIG_PATA_MPIIX=y CONFIG_PATA_OLDPIIX=y Should be n, I've been told. What? No, this cant be. CONFIG_PATA_OLDPIIX is supposed to be the libsata version for the PIIX

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-04 Thread Alan
And this config has clearly: # CONFIG_ATA_PIIX is not set Which for a PIIX4 chipset is what you want. Somewhat confusingly: CONFIG_PATA_MPIIX=y CONFIG_PATA_OLDPIIX=y Should be n, I've been told. Setthing them as well will cause no problems. ATA_PIIX drives the Intel PIIX3,PIIX4,ICH

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-04 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/4/07, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PATA_OLDPIIX drives the PIIX (the original not PIIX3,4, etc) People do find that confusing so if there is any rewording for Configure.help that would have made it easier and more obvious let me know Okay so.. what do I define now to use libsata with

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-04 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/4/07, Patrick Ale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amm, not to sound like a wise guy but... CONFIG_ATA_PIIX is the SATA driver, not the PATA driver.. atleast that is what menuconfig tells me when I select Help when I look at the config options - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-04 Thread Alan
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 20:33:39 +0100 Patrick Ale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/4/07, Patrick Ale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amm, not to sound like a wise guy but... CONFIG_ATA_PIIX is the SATA driver, not the PATA driver.. atleast that is what menuconfig tells me when I select Help when I

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-04 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/4/07, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: \ OLDPIIX is for old PIIX devices only - from pentium era. It does not cover the later chips at all Well, neither driver works, as you can see in my config I have the OLD driver and the new driver, neither driver makes my controller being detected...

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-04 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/4/07, Patrick Ale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/4/07, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: \ OLDPIIX is for old PIIX devices only - from pentium era. It does not cover the later chips at all Just to make sure, this is a P2 SMP board, Slot A, doesnt even support P3 CPUs. The board is something

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-04 Thread Patrick Ale
It's working, thanks :) I was confused by this ATA_PIIX driver needing to be enabled, I genuinly thought and read it was the SATA driver. Thanks :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-04 Thread Alan
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 20:59:23 +0100 Patrick Ale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/4/07, Patrick Ale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/4/07, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: \ OLDPIIX is for old PIIX devices only - from pentium era. It does not cover the later chips at all Just to make sure, this