Comment 15 for bug 133666

I have an Athlon Classic 1200 with a SiS 5513 IDE driver. The 2.6.22 kernels in Gutsy and Hardy, and the 2.6.24 kernel in Hardy all show this problem by not recognizing my hard drive partitions on bootup -- causing a complete lock up early in the boot process. I have proven this is fixable in the 2.6.22 and 2.6.23 kernels by simply building the sis5513 module when recompiling the kernel. Perhaps there is some other more generally applicable code fix, but so far, none of the final release kernels for Gutsy have any such fix, and neither do the early versions of the Hardy kernels.

I have been able to do a partial fix by adding 'ide-generic' and 'ide-disk' to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and running update-initramfs. This has "worked" in both Gutsy and Hardy kernels -- but it has its problems. Most importantly, ide-generic completely cancels dma on all drives. So, while this will allow me to use xorg and KDE, it is not a true final solution.

I have an active Gutsy partition, and now a Hardy partition (upgraded from Feisty this week). I would like to see this bug actively worked in Hardy to a point where I can actually use my hard drives *with* dma turned on.

We've now chosen to leave Gutsy with a known major failure for everyone with SiS 5513 and Intel 82801 EB/ER IDE drivers. Can we please get this failure fixed in Hardy? (Hint: The sis5513 module still works -- but it has been marked as not to be compiled for the Gutsy and Hardy kernels. So, if we are mandating that the module cannot be allowed in the kernel, we need to look at what its doing in order to support these drivers.)

Please keep us posted as new changes are put in place for this driver.

Cheers!