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  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL on SATA drive
  • Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:27:44 +0000 (UTC)

On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

Sindi, I think putting in all 12 is a good idea, so that you don't
have to recompile the kernel for every different computer with SATA
you come across :)
And yay! A 2.6.21.7 kernel for BL!
-- Zarek Jenkinson

I was thinking of a SATA 2.4.31 kernel first, but I am supposed to use libata rather than IDE_SATA (which is only for a few very 'old' SATA chipsets) and I have no idea how to do that. Someone backported it to 2.4 from 2.6. There is a libata.h in the kernel source code but no mention of it in the kernel .config .

I may go straight to kernel 2.6 compiled with SW11 gcc (which did let me compile prism2_usb if I used two versions previous to current, and needs a kernel compiled with the same gcc to work).


On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:42 AM, <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:

Kernel 2.6 supports SATA more easily, but 2.4.27 and later will do so
if you compile with IDE_SATA, SCSI_ATA and the driver for your individual
chipset, which for my board is ICH6 series, using SATA_AHCI setting in the
kernel configuration.

I did find the 12 drivers but nothing in .config that looks like libata.
Steven, any ideas?

I will use this superfast computer to compile a 2.6.21.7 kernel once
I get BL2 working on it with 2.4.31 kernel.

Would anyone like me to compile in all 12 SATA chipset drivers?
Sindi

I think SATA started about 2003. Our two newest computers are 2005 and 2007. Ubuntu switched to SATA, dropping the separate IDE driver in 2006. I think 2.6.21.7 is the last kernel to distinguish hda from sda.

It would be nice if BL supported 7 year old hardware, which is about the age people discard even working equipment, such as this perfect 200GB drive.

Sindi




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