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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