https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=248860 teheo@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |imotgm@yahoo.com ------- Comment #19 from teheo@novell.com 2007-04-06 05:41 MST ------- Fully agreed that was one crappy installation experience. Kudos to you for getting through. * regarding hdparm: Many control knobs including manual transfer mode configuration is not supported yet. It's most likely that we're gonna drop some of them. But the command issue interface is compatible and features relying on direct command execution works - e.g. -I (-i in devel tree), -Y, -y. smartmontools should work fully. These things are in progress and that's why the IDE drivers are still default for PATA drives. * Yeap, brokenmodules is only effective during installation. * No need to file another bug report and I don't think your drives are broken. Both devices can't be broken the same way and as you said they work fine on other distributions. Yet, I still don't think it821x drivers are to blame. it821x controllers are fairly standard IDE devices and the driver hasn't changed much. I'm sure Mandravia or any other distributions are shipping almost identical drivers, so something else is involved and that's why I'm scratching head here. By doing the following, you can prevent it821x drivers from loading during boot. # echo "STARTMODE='off'" > "/etc/sysconfig/hardware/hwcfg-bus-pci-0000:02:0c.0" You should have clean boot and can load it821x or pata_it821x afterward using modprobe. 1. After doing the above such that no driver is loaded for the controller, load pata_it821x and report /var/log/messages right after kernel starts complaining. 2. Please post kernel message from mandravia 2007. It would be great if you can give a shot to pata_it821x there too as they produce much better error messages. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.