Re: P4C800E-Dlx: ICH5/S-ATA and Intel Pro onboard network incompatibility ?

[Jeff Garzik]

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 12:03:38PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Sat Oct 04, 2003 at 04:44:45PM +0200, Philippe Lochon wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm running Mandrake 9.2RC1 (kernel 2.4.22) and I can't make work S-ATA 
> > boot drive and Intel Pro onboard network.
> > 
> > The Asus P4C800E-Dlx in the only mainboard in the P4x800 family with 
> > ICH5R and Intel 82547EI (Gb onboard chip, it uses e1000 driver).
> > 
> > The chips share the same IRQ :
> > # grep eth0 /proc/interrupts
> >  17:         83   IO-APIC-level  Intel ICH5, eth0
> > (note that there's no error about this in syslog)
> > 
> > 1) Boot on S-ATA drive / Mandrake 9.2RC1 with "acpi=off"
> > -> boot OK, but no ping, "NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out" in 
> > syslog.
> > (full log and config on http://plochon.free.fr/mdk92RC1.html )
> > 
> > 2) Boot on S-ATA drive / Mandrake 9.2RC1 with "acpi=off" and "noapic"
> > -> boot hang (when displays "hde: attached ide_disk driver" where hde is 
> > the S-ATA boot drive)
> 
> I have an Asus P4P800 and I see the same thing.  I have to enter
> the BIOS and set IDE to Compatible mode, even with the latest
> libata.  Dunno why, but with the ICH5 in native mode it simply
> won't boot.

Tre weird.  Any chance both of you could forward me libata boot/err messages?

There are also debugging controls in include/linux/ata.h which add tons
of verbosity to dmesg.

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/
(patches for 2.4 and 2.6)

	Jeff



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