Re: ata.mod hangs (Re: Some grub2 problems/questions)

[Marco Gerards]

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...

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Marco