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SubjectRe: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18
Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>
>> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>
>>> Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I just finished pulling out a melted IDE flash drive out of a
>>>> Shuttle motherboard with the intel 945 chipset which claims to support
>>>> SATA and IDE drives concurrently under Linux 2.6.18.
>>>>
>>>> The chip worked for about 30 seconds before liquifying in the
>>>> chassis. I note that the 945 chipset in the shuttle PC had some
>>>> serious
>>>> issues recognizing 2 x SATA devices and a IDE device
>>>> concurrently. Are there known problems with the Linux drivers
>>>> with these newer chipsets.
>>>>
>>>> One other disturbing issue was the IDE flash drive was configured
>>>> (and recognized) as /dev/hda during bootup, but when
>>>> it got to the root mountint, even with root=/dev/hda set, it still
>>>> kept thinking the drive was at scsi (ATA) device (08,13)
>>>> and kept crashing with VFS cannot find root FS errors.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We have two sets of ATA drivers now, and Intel motherboards support
>>> bazillion annoying IDE modes, so you will need to provide more info
>>> than this.
>>>
>>> Is the motherboard in combined mode?
>>
>>
>>
>> Yes. "Enhanced mode" is how it is listed in the BIOS.
>
>
> Combined mode is a technical term. Judging from your answers, you are
> not using combined mode.
>
>
>>> native mode? AHCI or RAID mode?
>>
>>
>> No RAID, just enhanced mode (SATA 3.0 + IDE)
>
>
> Judging from your answers, you are not in AHCI mode.
>
> Side note: You should use AHCI if available. Emulating a PATA
> interface for SATA devices is error prone [in the silicon]. AHCI is
> native SATA, "enhanced mode" is not.


AHCI It is.

Jeff

>
>
>>> The cannot-find-root-FS errors are definitely caused by driver
>>> and/or initrd misconfiguration. The melted flash, I dunno, maybe
>>> you managed to get two drivers fighting over the same hardware.
>>
>>
>> No. Seems related to the chipset problems. If I say
>> "root=/dev/hda2" I have better not be getting errors claiming device
>> 08:13 could not mount as root. memory corruption?
>
>
> If the kernel cannot mount the requested root= disk, it tries the
> default that is encoded into the vmlinuz image at build time, which is
> probably 08:13.
>
>
>> The melted flash seems power related (like pin 20 was live for some
>> reason on a standard IDE).
>
>
> Probably, otherwise we would have many more reports like this than
> just yours.
>
> Jeff
>
>
>

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