RE: ide broken since 2.3.99-pre9 ?

From: Dunlap, Randy (randy.dunlap@intel.com)
Date: Mon Jun 12 2000 - 10:50:00 EST


Hi,

> I own a Iwill XA100+ board with a ALI M1541 chipset and a
> 20Go UDMA66 IBM harddisk.
>
> 2.3.99-pre8 worked fine on this etup, but both 2.399-pre9 and
> 2.4.0-test1,
> compiled with the same .config don't work. The boot messages
> show that the
> kernel can't read the partition table, at elast that is the
> earliest message i
> manage to read, the rest having scrolled up. and since it is my only
> harddisk, i cannot boot into this kernel, thus no way of
> saving the log to file :(((.
>
> i have the disk partitioned with a 6 GB windows/dos/whatever
> partition, then a
> <1Go root partition, andthe rest of the stuff on a extended partition.
>
> Is this a known problem ? how can it be fixed ?
>
> BTW i have two less important problems :
>
> * i have a new usb trackball, but ti am not able to load
> the usb-ohci
> module, because it don't find an irq for usb (irq 5 under
> windows, the
> module reports irq 0 and suggest using pci=biosirq, which
> don't help.

For USB IRQ assignment problem, please send output of
'lspci -vv' to linux-usb@suse.com and to mj@ucw.cz .

~Randy

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