From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264119AbTLAWBH (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2003 17:01:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264123AbTLAWBH (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2003 17:01:07 -0500 Received: from mrout1.yahoo.com ([216.145.54.171]:32269 "EHLO mrout1.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264119AbTLAWBC (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2003 17:01:02 -0500 Message-ID: <3FCBB9F1.2080300@bigfoot.com> Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 14:00:17 -0800 From: Erik Steffl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: libata in 2.4.24? References: <3FCB8312.3050703@rackable.com> <87fzg4ckej.fsf@stark.dyndns.tv> <3FCBB15F.7050505@rackable.com> In-Reply-To: <3FCBB15F.7050505@rackable.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Samuel Flory wrote: > Greg Stark wrote: > >> Samuel Flory writes: >> >> >>> It's getting harder to find a newly released motherboard without >>> onboard >>> sata. Not having libata support means that anyone running 2.4 >>> unpatched will >>> be unable to use such systems. >> >> >> >> My motherboard has a SATA controller and I'm using it in non-legacy >> mode with >> 2.4.23. What is this libata thing I'm supposed to be needing? >> > > What chipset are you using? Assumming that hda is your sata drive. > What are the results of the following "hdarm -t /dev/hda" "hdparm -dvi > /dev/hda" The ICH5 chipset is the only chipset I've found that works > well without libata. not for drives >133GB (I have intel D865PERL mb and 250GB matrox, it doesn't work without SCSI_ATA (at all), it cannot read/write above 133GB without libata patches) erik