On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 10:10:28AM -0500, Justin Mierta wrote: > well, i dont have a floppy drive, so that test is a little difficult to > do, but i threw some ram in there that i have used in linux before, and > i still had the slew of ide error messages. and this harddrive has > worked in linux before. i'm getting more and more convinced its an ide > controller +linux issue. > > plus, i just discovered this: > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0109.1/0198.html > > which really points to ide controller and linux not fighting nicely > together, altho the thread doesnt really point towards a solution. I'm using a K7S5A with recent 2.4.x kernels, and have no major problems[0]. I don't remember why I have CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE on, but I do. I also have CONFIG_IDEDMA_NEW_DRIVE_LISTINGS on, and obviously have CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIS5513 on. Oh, and I have CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB as well. The only problems I have seen with this board are that I can't find drivers for the sound (no big loss), lmsensors does not seem to be able to properly read the sensors (annoying), repeated 'VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)' messages (my cdrom drive, getting a little annoying), and, thats about it. I have not seen any data corruption. My obvious question is what kernels are you running, and are you enabling CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIS5513 or not? Zephaniah E. Hull. > > justin -- 1024D/E65A7801 Zephaniah E. Hull 92ED 94E4 B1E6 3624 226D 5727 4453 008B E65A 7801 CCs of replies from mailing lists are requested. "From" "Wow. The green word From is no longer yellow. That's deep, man." -- Marcus Meissner & Lars Balker Rasmussen in the Scary Devil Monastery