On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 12:44, mario libraro wrote:
Okay !! I dont know if you've taken a look at : http://www.geocities.com/ender7007/ or http://www.linuxvoodoo.com/newbies/ata66-100/
They almost parrot each other. But I'll be wrong to quote either here.
they both deals with old kernels who doesn't correctly recognize the controller (RedHat 6.2). But SuSE 8.0 uses the 2.4.18 kernel.. I tried to put another, formatted, well working drive on interface. Now it says:
Partition check: hde: [PTBL] [784/255/63] hde1 hde2 hde3 < hde5 hde6 hde7 hde8 >
and here hangs too. :(
Wow... Sorry Mario. It seems you're not alone. Here's some notes and quotes from the High-Priests themselves : ========================>QUOTE<===================== " There is something wrong in drivers/ide/pdc202xx.c ide driver. Andre Hedrick has merged ide stuff to 2.4.18 kernel that released for RedHat 7.3, SuSE 8.0 and Mandrake 8.2. That has a bug inside that is harmful to our company. First, in pdc202xx_dmaproc() function. Our source code is: unsigned long atapi_port =high_16+ 0x20 + (hwif->channel ? 0x04 : 0x00); 2.4.19pre8(RedHat 7.3, SuSE 8.0 and Mandrake 8.2) is: unsigned long atapi_reg = high_16 + (hwif->channel ? 0x24 : 0x00); The Primary channel get's a wrong address, So this causes our PDC20265/67 to not work on the Primary channel with LBA48 drives. Andre, I think this is your mistake, Could you please be kind enough to fix it? Second, our PDC20262 controller does not support LBA48 with the hardware48hack function. Please fix it in the pdc202xx_dmaproc() function also. Third, I told Alan before. In pdc202xx_new_tune_chipset() function. We need to set timing only if ATA133 drives exist on both channels. If not, we do not need to set timing here. Please update this function also. Fourth. I hope we can add some more quirk drives to the pdc202xx.c list below "QUANTUM FIREBALLP KA9.1" "QUANTUM FIREBALLP KX13.6" please append these. The last. I hope you guys could help us to notify RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake and etc to fix this bug as soon as possible. Thanks in advance and sincerely Hank Yang (Promise)" ==========================<END of QUOTE>=================== Probably time to grab a specialised Slackware kernel that supports this. i.e the ata100.i . Try it. Later. -- Kemdi IN_SuSE_d Since 5.2 123792 of counter.li.org ICQ:112290572