Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 01 Dec 2003 14:00:17 -0800 | From | Erik Steffl <> | Subject | Re: libata in 2.4.24? |
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Samuel Flory wrote: > Greg Stark wrote: > >> Samuel Flory <sflory@rackable.com> 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
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