I saw mention of the poweredge 750 in a livecd thread (bug id #51396), regarding crashes and the eata driver, so i posted a question asking if it was a related concern to my problem and added the information that the 2004.1 cd (2.4 kernel image only) boots and installs fine on the 750, to perhaps facilitate a config comparison against the new livecd. I grabbed the latest (-test7) 2004.2 cd and tested that. verified to work appropriately. there is a bug in the drivers for this though. if you take the kernel config on the -test7 cd and put it on the machine itself, then rebuild the kernel (changing the scsi libata/ide code to be in the kernel instead of a module), you result in a system that is bootable, but ONLY if you keep a cdrom drive connected to the machine. If you disable the primary ide interface (standard ide controller) via the bios, or just disconnect the cdrom from the primary ide bus, the drivers do not continue to probe to detect the sata interface... and therefore doesnt see any drives, which results in a kernel panic. the same config on the 2.4 kernel from 2004.1 works fine. since the 2.4 kernel boots fine and sees the drives as hd{cd} instead of with the scsi emulation seeing them as sd{ab}, i assume this isnt a bug with the bios on the poweredge 750 (i am running the latest a01 bios). Any help getting this fixed would be appreciated.
Created attachment 36618 [details, diff] diff from 2.8.8-rc2 against 2.6.7-gentoo-r11 this should solve the problem
Comment on attachment 36618 [details, diff] diff from 2.8.8-rc2 against 2.6.7-gentoo-r11 there are other files in the ata core that need to be patched as well for this patch to work to bring in things like ata_qc_prep
Can you try the 2005.0 boot media and see if that still exhibits this error?
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