On 2007/12/16 14:28 (GMT) Alan Cox apparently typed: > Felix Miata wrote: >> It used to be that PATA was not SATA was not SCSI was not USB, and we could >> distinguish which was which by their names. Now since libata, PATA = SATA = > Trouble is USB is SCSI over a different cable, ATAPI is SCSI over an ATA > cable, SATA is PATA over a different wire and often you can't tell one > from the other (or people use PATA/SATA bridges)... I can tell by looking at them. ;-) > If your rootfs is labelled rather than /dev/hd* it should all just work, > and it should certainly load the ata_piix module into the initrd. I built a new initrd and redirected stdout & stderr to a file. ata_piix is in it. http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/tmp/mkinitrd.scr http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/tmp/mkinitrd-fc8.txt > Can you send me an lspci -vvxxx of the system. http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/tmp/lspcivvxxx-gx150.txt Probably moot though. I noticed boot errors about the disk being smaller than it is and failure to read sectors. PowerMax says the 7 year old HD is failing. I'll report again after trying another HD. -- " Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/
