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Re: ata.mod hangs (Re: Some grub2 problems/questions)
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Marco Gerards |
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Re: ata.mod hangs (Re: Some grub2 problems/questions) |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:11:44 +0100 |
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Vesa Jääskeläinen <address@hidden> writes:
> Robert Millan wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 04:14:38PM -0800, walt wrote:
>>> Unfortunately, ata.mod still doesn't recognize the disk on the Promise
>>> sata controller. But, that's expected at this point?
>>
>> Yes. Some SATA controllers emulate PATA, but not all do.
>
> I suppose there are multiple controller on the board and we need PCI
> to detect extra ones.
Right, adding PCI support will solve most of our problems in ata.mod.
Currently, a reset is sent to each device. If PCI is used, every ATA
device can be found (if they support the ATA/ATAPI standard). Besides
that, the reset might cause problems. Perhaps the ATA driver can even
coexist with biosdisk.mod in this case...
--
Marco