Re: Booting off of IDE while using different libata drives on samesouthbridge

[J. Ryan Earl]

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

> On Monday 03 of May 2004 23:19, J. Ryan Earl wrote:
>  
>
> > I am having a similar problem to what Markus Kossmann wrote about, but
> > with the VIA Southbridge (Asus K8V).  My situation is similar, but a
> > little different.  I would like to boot off a PATA drive attached to the
> > Southbridge, but use libata for a couple SATA drives attached to the
> > same Southbridge.
> >
> > Is this still not possible?  I also tried hde/hdg=noprobe options, but
> > they didn't help the situation.  It appears the only way to get the
> > drives on sata_via is to boot off of them.  Am I correct in thinking
> > this is the only way to go about this?
> >    
>
> Did you actually tried it (booting off of them)?
> [ I can't see how this can help. ]
>  
With libata linked into the kernel, and ide as a module, I can boot off 
of libata.

> Just don't compile-in generic IDE PCI driver which controls your SATA drives
> (or don't load this module if you're using initrd).
>  
As I said, I want to boot off of the PATA drives attached to the 
southbridge.  To boot of them, I have to have the IDE driver compiled 
into the kernel; if I do this I can't use libata on that southbridge, 
the IDE driver take precedence for the serial ata channels.

-ryan
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