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| Summary: | Devices on the PATA port of the Promise PDC2037x controller are not detected | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1 | Reporter: | Andras Mantia <amantia> |
| Component: | Kernel | Assignee: | Jens Axboe <axboe> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | E-mail List <qa-bugs> |
| Severity: | Enhancement | ||
| Priority: | P5 - None | CC: | enosp.netmeeting |
| Version: | RC 3 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | 64bit | ||
| OS: | SuSE Linux 10.0 | ||
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| Found By: | Customer | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
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Enable the PATA port for Promise PDC2037x
Enable the PATA port for Promise PDC2037x (for 10.1 beta9) |
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Description
Andras Mantia
2006-02-07 09:55:27 UTC
Created attachment 66689 [details]
Enable the PATA port for Promise PDC2037x
Does the 10.1 Beta 3 work properly for you on this hardware? Due to the fact that my connection is till somewhat limited, I cannot promise that I can test before the final version. Is it enough for testing if I download the first CD only? Yes, the mini-iso will probably be sufficient. You might be able to just grab the kernel package and see if that works (but don't loose the current one, there are some userspace programs that need to be updated to make the new kernel work properly.) The kernel on the mini-iso does not recognize the device attached to the PATA port, just like with the kernel from 10.0. Sorry, we wont add additions like this to a released product. I don't think the promise PATA bits are all in mainline yet, though there's a chance that the next 10.1 beta will have it because we needed it for something else. It would be prefect if the final 10.1 would support PATA devices, as it would make it possible to install SUSE without swapping around the disks, patching the kernel later and swap again. For 10.0, I'm happy with my patched kernel. I reopen because: - the bug is not solved in beta6 (which is a not yet released product) - other distributions solved it quite some time ago (like Ubuntu) Unfortunately this means that I cannot test beta6 (altough I downloaded it) unless I put my hard drive to another port. Same with beta8. If you don't trust my patch, the original ones from Jeff Garzik are available at ftp://ftp.ro.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata . I tried with success with the suse's 2.6.13, vanilla 2.6.15 and 2.6.16-rc6 (here it did not apply clearly the patch against 2.6.16-rc1 as some parts were already in rc6). Is it really that hard to include this piece of code in the suse's version until it appears in the upstream kernel (where sooner than later will appear)? Created attachment 76046 [details]
Enable the PATA port for Promise PDC2037x (for 10.1 beta9)
Also the newest boot.iso CD from SuSe10.1 RC3 can't find hard disks on the parallel IDE Port of the Promise FAST Track 376 on-board controller of my A7V8X Asus motherboard. I like to run this board with a 32 Bit linux kernel. In which SuSe10.1 Release will the libata patch mentioned above inserted ? Since SuSe 9.0 I was not able to run with SuSe harddisks on this Motherboard. Other Linux Distributions can do this since years..... Regards Egon Niessner *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 176249 *** |