5.3 -> 5.4 breaks ATA (Intel ICH2)

[Danny Howard]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 04:30:19PM -0700, Danny Howard wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 01:10:20PM -0400, Tim Howe wrote:
> > Billy Newsom <smartweb at leadhill.net> writes:
> > > Anyway, I count three systems that are normally boting with 5.3 or
> > > 5.4, and then the upgrade to the latest 5-Stable breaks the boot.
> > 
> > If I may make a small correction, I would like to point out that it's
> > not 5-STABLE that breaks mine but 5.4-RELEASE.  Even booting from the
> > 5.4 mini-CD can't find the drive, but booting from the 5.3 installer
> > can.
> 
> I don't know if this helps, but I had some nasty tries installing
> 5.(3?4?)-release from scratch on some SuperMicro SATA-based systems, and
> while it seemed to be choking on SATA, what I did was install in "safe
> mode" from the CD-ROM, compile an SMP kernel, and reboot.  With the SMP
> kernel, the systems ran fine, without, choking on SATA errors ...

AErrr, pardon my stupidity ... this was actually on some motherboards
with SCSI disks attached that were barfing on 5.3 ... my SATA machines
have been just fine in this respect. :)

Thanks,
-danny