On 2 May, Rod Taylor wrote:
= As a side note to this long conversation, I'll mention that I've
= downgraded that box back to 3.4 and it now works properly again.
>From my experience, you could've just used the old wd driver instead of
the new ata stuff and ignore the config's warnings.
I just upgraded a machine with two IDE disks (one master on each
channel, with CMD640 stuff). One of the drives is at least 7 years old.
wdc1: unit 0 (wd2): <WDC AC2420H>
wd2: 405MB (830760 sectors), 989 cyls, 15 heads, 56 S/T, 512 B/S
With ata driver, an attempt to mount the partition on the drive would
result in a hang (not even console-switching would work) right after the
partition parameters were printed by the kernel (booted with -v). Both
of the drives were being accessed in pio mode automaticly, judging by
the hw.ata... (pio,---,pio,---,). The first disk, which is newer worked
fine.
With wd driver the second drive "just works"... This was with
4.0-RELEASE. I have since upgraded to the 3 days old -stable, but have
not tried ata again.
-mi
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