buggy ATA controller: I can install 4.11, but not 5.3 !?!

[Mars Trading]

Rob,

I think you may be on to something here.  Not that I'm an expert, 
BTW.  If I remember correctly, 4.11 doesn't use device.hints; 
device irq's and stuff were all included in the kernel 
configuration.

This is no longer the case with 5.x which uses /boot/device.hints to 
tell where attached devices are.  But how does one edit 
device.hints on a boot cd?

Dennis

On Monday 28 March 2005 13:31, Rob wrote:
> --- Randy Rowe <rerowe at rerowe.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 00:10 -0800, Rob wrote:
> > > I have a very old Pentium-1 PC (60 MHz).
> > >
> > > I have installed 4.11, without any problems,
> > > although the dmesg output has a line about buggy
> > > ATA controller (see below for dmesg output).
> > > ------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > 'dmesg' output after 4.11 installation:
> > >
> > > CPU: Pentium/P5 (58.18-MHz 586-class CPU)
> > > atapci0: <RZ 100? ATA controller !WARNING! buggy
> > >   chip data loss possible> at device 1.0 on pci0
> > > atapci0: ATA channel disabled by BIOS
> >
> > If the above line is true, I am surprised that 4.11
> > works.
> > Is the channel really disabled in BIOS?
>
> First of all, I'm not expert in these matters. I'm
> just curious why I can install 4.11, but not 5.3.
> (I wish I could install 5.3 !!).
>
> Indeed, the BIOS is a strange issue.
> In the BIOS setup, I can select
>  1) Standard CHS
>  2) Logical block
>  3) Extended CHS,
>  4) Auto Detected
>
> But whatever I select here, when I get back into the
> the BIOS setup, to verify check my settings, I
> find that 1) is selected. Apparently this is what
> means "disabled by BIOS", but I'm not sure.
>
> The 4.11 dmesg output has following:
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> CPU: Pentium/P5 (55.18-MHz 586-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x517  Stepping = 7
>   Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8>
> -//-
> atapci0: <RZ 100? ATA controller !WARNING! buggy
>      chip data loss possible> at device 1.0 on pci0
> atapci0: ATA channel disabled by BIOS
> -//-
> ata0 at port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 irq 14 on isa0
> ata1 at port 0x170-0x177,0x376 irq 15 on isa0
> -//-
> ad0: 520MB <ST3660A> [1057/16/63] at ata0-master
>      BIOSPIO
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> Notice that the harddisks are on isa0, not on
> atapci0; probably because of this buggy chip and/or
> BIOS problem.
>
> Could it be that 5.3 install cannot (yet?) handle
> harddisks on isa properly?
> Or must I help 5.3 by setting some hints/syscontrols
> before loading the kernel?
>
> Thanks,
> Rob.
>
>
>
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