* Ward Vandewege ward@gnu.org [060501 17:55]:
Hi Stefan,
should have working S-ATA. I have no S-ATA here so I could not test it. It's the version that also comes with the GRUB user interface.
Not sure what happened, but it seems we're not 100% there yet. I've attached a boot log, and my filo Config file. It hangs after saying 'IDE channel 2 not found'.
I wonder if this is because it ignored (!) the AUTOBOOT_DELAY, which would mean the SATA drives would not be fully ready yet. This was a cold boot.
AUTOBOOT_DELAY is a different one, it waits for user interaction before trying to start the kernel..
drive startup times could be an issue though
Could you try some things:
* update to the latest svn revision (17 as I write this) and make sure you enabled the following option (which is new)
# Add a short delay when polling status registers # (required on some broken SATA controllers) IDE_DISK_POLL_DELAY = 1
* if that doesnt help: try whether the disk is detected as hda instead of hde. This might happen with the current code.
* enable the two options: DEBUG_PCI and DEBUG_IDE in the config file.
Stefan