Re: Serial ATA on Dell Dimension 8300 (Was: Re: Serial ATA supportin 2.4.22)

[Jeff Garzik]

Erik Steffl wrote:
> Martin List-Petersen wrote:
>
> > I've got trouble with both 2.4.22-ac1, ac4 and 2.4.22-bk25 + newest sata
> > patch. (Debian Sid)
> >
> > When i try to boot ac1 or ac4 from harddisk. The kernel would fail by
> > endless stating:
> > kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-0000, errno = 8
> > on screen.
> >
> > Do i boot the same kernel from floppy or cd (syslinux/isolinux - dmesg 
> > for ac4 attached, bootet from cd) it boots without trouble, mounts the 
> > harddisk etc.
> >
> > The machine is a Dell Dimension 8300 (practically the same as the 
> > Precision 360), with Intel 875 chipset (ICH5 SATA controllers).
> > In bk25+sata patch reiserfs seems to be broken (dmesg attached), i 
> > will try an older version tomorrow.
> >
> > I simply can't figure out, whats wrong here.
>
>
>   I have intel D865PERL mb (close but not same as you have, I think they 
> have the same sata controller), I used the 2.4.21-ac4 kernel, with 
> SCSI_ATA enabled (otherwise system freezes right after it detects HDs). 
> I also had to use libata5 patches from Jeff Garzik  to be able to use 
> drive >137GB (not sure whether libata5 are in one of the more recent 
> kernels or ac patches).


Basically I need to get off my butt and send Alan and Bero some updates...

Latest patches against mainline (2.4.22-bkXX and 2.6.0-testX-bkXX) are 
always posted at 
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/  and the 
latest Fedora Core (what used to be Red Hat Linux) supports it out of 
the box as well.

It does take a bit of potentially non-trivial hand merging to patch 
successfully into -ac tree... :(

	Jeff



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