On Thursday 03 April 2008 10:56:20 am Geoffrey wrote:
> Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > On Thursday 03 April 2008 10:37:11 am Geoffrey wrote:
> >> Sharpe, Sam J wrote:
> >>>> When I attempt to boot from the Red Hat 5.1 install DVD, I see
> >>>> the following in the logs:
> >>>>
> >>>> ide-cd: cmd 0x28 timed out hda: DMA interrupt recovery lost
> >>>> interrupt lost interrupt lost interrupt lost interrupt
> >>>>
> >>>> I've tried the Red Hat 5.1 install cd as well as the Red Hat 4
> >>>> install cd, same problem. Centos 5.1 gives the same issue.
> >>> Try booting with "linux hda=noprobe"
> >> Yeah, tried that as well. It produces the same problem as the
> >> askmethod, where every keystroke is duplicated.
> >
> > Not sure if its in 5.1, but for 5.2, there's definitely a
> > 'intel_via_libata=1' param you can pass in to get your disk
> > controllers handled by libata instead of the old ata stack, which
> > matches what Fedora does. I'm assuming the MacBook Pro has Intel disk
> > controllers, anyhow...
>
> Looks like it's Hitachi:
>
> scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access   ATA    Hitachi HTS72202 DC4A PQ: 0 ANSI: 5

That would be the disk, not the disk controller. :)

> Looking at lsmod under Fedora 8, I see the following:
>
> ata_generic         8773 0
> pata_acpi          8641 0
> ata_piix          17860 2
> libata           128561 3 ata_generic,pata_acpi,ata_piix
> scsi_mod         123341 4 sg,sr_mod,libata,sd_mod

ata_piix is indeed for Intel disk controllers.

$ modinfo ata_piix
[...]
description:   SCSI low-level driver for Intel PIIX/ICH ATA controllers
[...]

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Jarod Wilson
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