On Sat Oct 04, 2003 at 01:53:43PM -0600, Erik wrote:
> On Sat Oct 04, 2003 at 03:27:33PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Oh yeah, when ICH5 SATA is configured to native mode, "lspci -vvvxxx"
> > output -- when run as root -- would be helpful as well.
> 
> I'd be happy to do that -- if I can get it to boot up 
> in native mode....

Ok.  I spent some time exploring the problem and made some
progress.  I noticed it was freezing after running init.  So I
_was_ able to make it boot into init=/bin/sh and get the lspci
output for you (attached).

When I have the Bios set to compatible mode everything works --
except for the obvious problem that I have to put my SATA drive
onto my promise SATA card (since the ICH5 SATA is disabled).

When I have the Bios set to Enhanced mode (so the ICH5 provides
both SATA and PATA) then my system will wedge solid as a rock.

It turns out it was locking up while loading up the ide-scsi
kernel module.  I have

    options ide-cd ignore='hdc'

in my /etc/modules.conf so my CD/DVD writer (on hdc) can be owned
by ide-scsi so cdrecord will talk to it.  2.4.22-pre6 with the
latest libata, and Intel SATA disabled in drivers/ide/pci/piix.c
so the libata driver will win,

 -Erik

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