https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=248860 imotgm@yahoo.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED Info Provider|imotgm@yahoo.com | ------- Comment #28 from imotgm@yahoo.com 2007-04-08 02:06 MST ------- 7 00:49:06 fatman kernel: ide1: reset: success 7 00:49:07 fatman kernel: hdc: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } 7 00:49:07 fatman kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown Does not the above indicate that the errors on hdc were because of timing issues in the order of loading drivers? FYI hdc is attached to amd74xx, not sata_nv. I have four IDE controllers, for eight possible drives total; four on amd74xx, and four on the it821x. There are two SATA controllers for four possible drives attached as two to sata_nv, and two to sata_sil. The power supply is new. I contacted Antec and gave them all the specs for the motherboard, and the video card. I told them I would most likely end up with all of the possible drive connections filled, and wanted their recommendation for the best unit they made, to do the job. They recommended a 400 watt top of the line unit, I purchased the 500 watt version of the same. As I only have five of the possible twelve connections filled, I highly doubt the the PSU is overloaded, and you'd have to beat me with a club to convince me that Antec makes anything other than quality products. I've had cheap OEM puwer supplies fail, rather early in most cases, but I've never had a problem with any of the Antec replacement units, some of which are eight to ten years old, have been in multiple computers, and are still in use. I'm also a bit of a fanatic about doing complete tear downs of my computers at least every four to six months, to clean and lubricate all fans, clean all connectors, and replace all internal cabling. I try to schedule the tear downs for every four months, but the longest interval has been six months, give or take a week. I have tested over twenty distrbutions on this machine, with as many as twelve being present at one time. Only SUSE has noticable problems with this it8212 board, and only SUSE 10.2 has major problems with it. If you really think there's any possibility that some conflict with the automated stuff is the cause, rather than the driver itself, tell me what you'd like disabled, and how to do that, or how to remove it entirely, and I'd be more than happy to get that crap off of my machine. I hated it on Windows, and always turned off as much as I could. I loved Linux because there was none of that bullshit present, and I was in control of my machine, not some programmers ego boosting wet dream. Adding all that crap as default, to try to win over the Windows wienees, is the worst thing anyone could do to the Linux users who love Linux for what it is, in it's native form. Gee, I'm glad I got that last part off my chest!! ;-) Back to business, I'll check to see if the pata_it821x is in the initrd, and remove it if so. I've already checked the file name for typos, and all seems correct. Pulling the hard drives to get a quick boot is not a problem, but sort of defeats the purpose for booting. Without the drives in place, one can learn nothing about the problem. Another FYI, in reguards to the above. Until I added the fourth drive, none of the previous versions of SUSE had any problems with the it8212 card. They boot fine with only hde in place. The problem is that SUSE tries to make a RAID when hdg gets added. Mandriva has a parameter "it821x_noraid" in its invocation of the driver. I tried that in SUSE, and It coughs up an error "unknown parameter" and doesn't load the module at all. That's the parameter I refered to earlier as "makes no sense" (to SUSE) to prevent the loading of the module. I've added that to the 10.2 modprobe.conf, from 10.1, so hopefully it will boot quicker, with both drives in place, to change the "load in initrd". Before you ask, or recommend, BIOS already sets the card for JBOD. I'd still prefer the it821x to the pata_it821x. It's bad evough trying to know which USB drive gets which sdx as well as which SATA drive gets which sdx. Adding the normally hdx to the pot of sdx seems like a backward step to me. If my hdx drives are seen as sdx, will the order shift when a real SATA drive is added? I'll bet it does, and I'll bet grub will puke on it when it does. So to the kernel when root=/dev/sda3 makes no sense, because sda suddenly is seen as sdd, or sde. What happens to my hdx16, hdx17 and hdx18 partitions when they're suddenly sdx??, because scsi only allows 15 partitions? It's like going back to ide=scsi for the CD burners. -- 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.