> For the kernel, with the SATA/PATA driver section, you'll have a > driver for your sata chipset and then a driver later on in the list > for the pata. > > for the PATA part, you'll need to enable "ATA SFF Support (for legacy > IDE and PATA) and then select the proper driver for that chipset.
Ahhh! I think I get it now. Thanks! The G33 chipset uses an ICH9. Looked in my book and ICH9 does SATA but not PATA. lspci says the ASUS has a JMicron controller. In the SFF the Intel ICH/PIIX handles ICH 5-8, not 9, plus of course I had enabled drivers for the older Intel controllers, and some of the other major names, ATI, VIA, etc., I thought I might encounter, but never heard of JMicron. (IBEX uses an initrd, has 'em all as modules, picks the one it finds. I don't expect to have to have my kernels running on everything in the world, so I avoid initrd!) Now it all pretty much makes sense. But I guess I'll have to imbed the most popular supporting PATA controller chips so I've got a decent chance of coming up with the newer ICH's. Or not. Probably won't be trying to use these PATA ports that often. -- Paul Rogers [email protected] http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://www.fastmail.fm - IMAP accessible web-mail -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
