belated IDE_GD removal [SOLVED]

Gentree · Last edited by Gentree on Fri Oct 25, 2013 8:57 am; edited 1 time in total

Hi,

for a number of good reasons, that it's pointless discussing at this stage, I've been holding onto a 2.6.32 kernel, that last vintage that supported this feature. That is no longer feasible, so I have to migrate all my /dev/hd* partitions to sata driver.

Before updating the kernel and getting a whole raft of other shit to deal with I want to just switch out CONFIG_IDE_GD and make sure it all still boots and re-gig all the device names.

I rebuilt with

Jaglover · Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 10:30 pm Post subject:

You better post your lspci -nn output and pastebin the kernel .config.
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Gentree · Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 11:25 pm Post subject:

thanks,

http://piments.com/tmp/.config

bash-4.2# lspci -nn

Jaglover · Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 11:54 pm Post subject:

You need CONFIG_PATA_AMD for IDE interface [0101]: NVIDIA Corporation nForce2 IDE [10de:0065] (currently disabled in your conf).
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VoidMage · Watchman Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 6196

If both _IDE and _ATA drivers are set, it's quite random which gets picked for use.
It's best to do it in one go.

Gentree · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 12:19 am Post subject:

@JL: You need CONFIG_PATA_AMD

built that in and no change.

Void:

Jaglover · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 12:25 am Post subject:

Alright, lets go alternate route, can you boot with latest SystemRescueCD (USB stick is fine) and look at lspci -nnk output?
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Gentree · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 12:49 am Post subject:

I could, but I have lspci on gentoo:

Jaglover · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 12:56 am Post subject:

Gentree · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 2:03 am Post subject:

OK I booted with parted magic 6.6 , should be same enough.

the IDE drive comes up as sda, the SATA drives getting pushed along one. (Which is what I really hate about crap: non stable device names).

That pointed out I was missing ATA_GENERIC . I still have not managed to find that in make menuconfig , so I edited .config directly.

pata_amd module was getting loaded , so I added that too and new we see it in lspci:

Jaglover · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 2:12 am Post subject:

Gentree,

first, if you could not enable it in menuconfig it means you miss a parent option. Use '/' in menuconfig as you do it in less to search.

Second, editing .config manually is asking for trouble because dependencies are not satisfied.

Regarding hd* devices - there will be none, they all will show up as sd* when PATA drivers are used.
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Gentree · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 2:12 am Post subject:

PS in relation to your comment about the RAID, I unplugged the second SATA which in newly installed. No change.

This remaining SATA+IDE is the hardware that was working before.

Could you clarify ide_core should be off for libsata ?

Thx
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Gentree · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 2:16 am Post subject:

Gentree · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 2:22 am Post subject:

OK. I now have three drives again !

I need to fix fstab to get everything mounting properly but it's fixed.

The main trick was to use a live boot to find out what modules I was missing. I should have thought of that.

Thanks for all the help.

BTW ata_generic was half way down the long list under ATA_SFF , I was just missing it with all the hardware specific options in there.

Thanks for the / search tip. I was forgetting that.

:wink:

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Jaglover · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 2:49 am Post subject:

You are welcome!

BTW, looking at your location ... my most pleasant hotel experience ever was in Reims. I arrived there by sunset. Stopped at first hotel I could sight. Stepped in, asked for a room. I was handed a key no questions asked, no paperwork whatsoever. Next morning after breakfast I loaded my stuff into my car, went back inside, had to wait a few minutes for a clerk to pay my bill. If I paid cash there would be no trace of me being there. Isn't that unusual in our current world? Well, I did use a credit card, still no ID was required.
Then, after a few months I was traveling in the US. I was denied a motel room in Pennsylvania because my European ID did not have an address on it (my home country thinks revealing peoples addresses is a breach of privacy). !?! No comments.
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Gentree · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 8:56 am Post subject:

Yes, France can be refreshingly old-fashioned at times.

I've sadly added US to my own personal no-fly zone. So unless I get kidnapped by a seal team in a dawn raid for using a subversive OS I probably won't need a room in Penn state nor a state pen.
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