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

[Erik Andersen]

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.

 -Erik

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