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From: "Patrick Ale" <patrick.ale@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: [LIBATA] drives not detected
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:05:38 +0100
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On 2/20/07, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm...if you can use IDE driver for your root partition, change #undef
> ATA_DEBUG to #define ATA_DEBUG in include/linux/libata.h and rebuild the
> kernel.  After booting, insmod pata_pdc2027x and please report what the
> kernel says.  It might be that the controller doesn't interact well with
> libata's device discovery code using reset.  IDE drivers use different
> method for device detection so that's probably where the difference is
> coming from.

Hi,

Yep, I can do that. My root partition is served by a VIA chipset, so
no problems recompiling and testing stuff.

Give me a day tho, I am doing a pvmove /dev/md/3 /dev/md/5 so I can
safely mess around with the disks without having to worry about the
data :)

I'll keep you posted,

Patrick