On Thursday 29 July 2010 12:39:46 I wrote: > On Wednesday 28 July 2010 19:14:05 Bill Longman wrote: > > In the Device Drivers section, (this is for 2.6.34!), turn OFF the > > deprecated ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support. That corresponds to > > CONFIG_IDE in your .config. Then, turn ON, Serial ATA and Parallel > > ATA drivers which corresponds to CONFIG_ATA in your .config. Then, > > under Serial ATA, you'll need to turn on ATA SFF and then Intel > > ESB, ICH, PIIX3, PIIX4 PATA/SATA support. > > But bear in mind that setting these does not produce a bootable > kernel on my P4 box, as I've said in another thread, so it's > possible that making the suggested changes will introduce more fog > rather than dispelling it. I'm not sure how likely it is though.
For the record, this is now fixed. Eventually (this morning) I found a chipset option buried in the kernel config that I'd missed. The IDE disk is now /dev/sda and I can forget about /dev/hda and friends altogether. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
