[NBLUG/talk] ICH7R

[Stephen Cilley]

Ok, unfortunately I was wrong, issue is still not quit
resolved.
So apparently someone made a patch for the 2.6.x
kernels that will run my ITE controller but that
leaves me in a bit of a chicken and egg pickle: I
can't modify the kernel until I get into linux, and I
can't get into linux until I modify the kernel.
The patch is here:
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9-rc2/2.6.9-rc2-mm1/broken-out/add-support-for-it8212-ide-controllers.patch
I was hoping someone might have a suggestion how I
might boot with that already in place so I could
install the operating system and then have the
operating system continue to use that even after
restart (it would suck to get it all installed only to
realize I couldn't boot next time because it didn't
recognize my controller all over again!)
Any ideas?
Thank you,
Stephen



--- Stephen Cilley <hydro_mancer at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Ok, I misassigned the blame.  It turns out the IDE
> controller I am actually struggling with is the ITE
> 8211F.  Loads of people are having difficulties with
> it.  So, I don't really know how to take care of
> this.
> I have the driver source from the website
>
(www.ite.com.tw/software_download/software_download2.asp)
> but source is all that's availible.  How am I
> supposed
> to compile this because installing linux?  Do I boot
> liveCD?  Also, how do I add this in before the fdisk
> stage of installation?
> Bear in mind I'm installing the AMD64 release of
> Breezy Badger.
> Thank you,
> Stephen
> 
> --- Christopher Wagner <chrisw at pacaids.com> wrote:
> 
> > You can easily install Ubuntu on an 8 gig drive.. 
> > I'd recommend havving
> > your home partition on another hard drive, though,
> > depending on what
> > you're planning to do with the box.
> > 
> > A fully installed OS can be around 2 GB with a
> > general smattering of
> > normal applications, libraries and such for your
> > average desktop
> > system.  Having your user files (/home) on a
> larger
> > partition can be
> > very useful (and very potentially necessary) if
> you
> > plan to do lots of
> > video or audio stuff.
> > 
> > A suggestion to help eliminate clutter inside your
> > case is to switch as
> > much as possible to SATA as the data cables are
> MUCH
> > more manageable
> > inside your case.
> > 
> > Of course, working with what you have is possible.
> 
> > Ubuntu should easily
> > install to the secondary master position, and even
> > install grub
> > appropriately if told to do so. (/dev/hdc is the
> > secondary master
> > device)  Though, as I'm not familiar with the
> P5WD2,
> > I don't know
> > whether it will support booting to devices on the
> > IDE controller other
> > than "CDROM" or Primary Master.  My P4S800
> supports
> > booting to any
> > device on the IDE chain.  Either way you'll find
> out
> > on the "Boot" menu
> > of your BIOS.
> > 
> > Hope that helps.  If you need more help, I might
> be
> > able to help a
> > little over the phone when you're installing.
> > 
> > - Chris
> > 
> > Stephen Cilley wrote:
> > 
> > >Ok, new issue:
> > >Last week I struggled a bit to get a liveCD to
> boot
> > on
> > >my desktop.  I did a bunch of different stuff and
> > then
> > >I realized that the issue was in the controller
> on
> > my
> > >board and I switched the DVD drive's ribbon cable
> > over
> > >to the other Re: [NBLUG/talk] Direct Render
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> > >PATA controller on the board and everything was
> > fine.
> > >But this isn't really a solution to the problem,
> > >especially because now I want to install it
> instead
> > of
> > >just running the boot CD.
> > >The motherboard is a P5WD2 from Asus and the
> > >controller I'm having an issue with is called
> ICH7R
> > >and it's from Intel.  I put a different hard disk
> > (an
> > >little 8 gig I had around... do you guys think
> > that's
> > >too little for Ubuntu?) in there and hooked it up
> > to
> > >the problematic controller and booted the DVD
> only
> > to
> > >find out at the fdisk stage of the install that
> the
> > >same issue applies to hard disks.
> > >I could swap the hard disk onto the secondary on
> > the
> > >working controller, but that would be a bit of a
> > >shuffle I don't really want to make (there are
> > >physical limitations to consider about the size
> of
> > the
> > >inside of the case and the length and
> felexability
> > of
> > >ribbon cable.)  So if I have both slots on the
> ITE
> > >(working) controller taken and I want to put the
> > hard
> > >drive as the secondary master of the ICH7R and I
> > want
> > >to be able to install that way, what can I do? 
> Has
> > >anyone heard about this particular controller not
> > >working?
> > >Also, I'd like to refrain from adding another
> > >controller to the box, it's a jumbled mess as it
> > is.
> > >Thank you,
> > >Stephen
> > >
> > >
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