nonsense C/H/S values for CF (used in ide)

[Q-ha Park]

I have a board with gx1, pc97317 and cs5530a with one ide slot. I've been
booting linux with Phoenix bios so far with no problems, and I tried
linuxBIOS to boot linux. but I noticed strange C/H/S values like "init_drive
sectors_per_track=[768], num_heads=[768], num_cylinders=[768]". and it
failed to boot.

does anyone have similar problems like this? Phoenix bios sees the device
and read the values correctly...

thanks,
Q

[Ronald G Minnich]

this is because you need the ide patch for enabling the IDE in linuxbios.

see the rr2 mainboard. I am on travel but once I get back I will try to
show you an example of how to do this.

ron

[Q-ha Park]

hmm, you mean there's an additional patch to ide.c, which is already used to
build linuxBIOS, not in the source tree?

thanks,
Q
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> Subject: Re: nonsense C/H/S values for CF (used in ide)
>
> this is because you need the ide patch for enabling the IDE in linuxbios.
>
> see the rr2 mainboard. I am on travel but once I get back I will try to
> show you an example of how to do this.
>
> ron
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[Ronald G Minnich]

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Q-ha Park wrote:
> hmm, you mean there's an additional patch to ide.c, which is already used to
> build linuxBIOS, not in the source tree?

no, it's a south bridge patch. see the southbridge code. Or wait until
tomorrow when I get back :-)

ron

[Q-ha Park]

> no, it's a south bridge patch. see the southbridge code. Or wait until
> tomorrow when I get back :-)

ron, are you back yet? would you send me the south bridge patch? (actually,
I couldn't find much different in rr2 from voyager2 except voyager2 uses a
different super I/O pc97317.)

Q,

[Ronald G Minnich]

On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Q-ha Park wrote:
> ron, are you back yet? would you send me the south bridge patch? (actually,
> I couldn't find much different in rr2 from voyager2 except voyager2 uses a
> different super I/O pc97317.)

I don't think you need it. It's in the tree.

What drives IDE on the voyager? which chip?

ron