From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264066AbUECVok (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2004 17:44:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264040AbUECVok (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2004 17:44:40 -0400 Received: from mion.elka.pw.edu.pl ([194.29.160.35]:50429 "EHLO mion.elka.pw.edu.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264039AbUECVo0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2004 17:44:26 -0400 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: "J. Ryan Earl" Subject: Re: Booting off of IDE while using different libata drives on same southbridge Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 23:44:58 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200403121826.21442.markus.kossmann@inka.de> <200403121902.44371.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> <4096B752.9050602@clanhk.org> In-Reply-To: <4096B752.9050602@clanhk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200405032344.58597.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 03 of May 2004 23:19, J. Ryan Earl wrote: > I am having a similar problem to what Markus Kossmann wrote about, but > with the VIA Southbridge (Asus K8V). My situation is similar, but a > little different. I would like to boot off a PATA drive attached to the > Southbridge, but use libata for a couple SATA drives attached to the > same Southbridge. > > Is this still not possible? I also tried hde/hdg=noprobe options, but > they didn't help the situation. It appears the only way to get the > drives on sata_via is to boot off of them. Am I correct in thinking > this is the only way to go about this? Did you actually tried it (booting off of them)? [ I can't see how this can help. ] Just don't compile-in generic IDE PCI driver which controls your SATA drives (or don't load this module if you're using initrd). > -ryan > > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > >>Is there any chance to use sata_sil with that kernel configuration ? > >>Or is recompiling with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIIMAGE=m or with siimage disabled > >>the only option ? > > > >Yep. > > > >Regards, > >Bartlomiej