[CentOS] CentOS v4.5 and Intel 965/G33BY chipsets - PATA support

[Paul Griffith]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:25:07 -0400, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8/22/07, Paul Griffith <paulg at cse.yorku.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Greetings CentOS users,
>>
>> I have run into a hardware issue with the Intel 965 chipset. It appears
>> that the latest kernel doesn't support the Marvell PATA controller. I  
>> can
>> kickstart the computer, but after the OS is installed the DVD drive  
>> can't
>> be accessed.
>>
>> There are patches against 2.6.18 for the Marvell PATA controller here:
>>   http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/16/157
>>
>> There is bug report ported for RHEL 5.0 and I assume this will apply to
>> CentOS 5 also.
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=237372
>>
>> What are my options other that to try to patch the current kernel
>> (2.6.9-55.0.2.EL) ?
>>
>> We have a lab of 24 computer to push out before the start of the term
>> (Sept 5/07) ... joy joy
>>
>> Thanks
>> Paul
>
> I don't really see any other choice here than rebuilding a kernel
> yourself. But did you see somethere that the patch works for kernel
> 2.6.9 as well?
>
> Akemi

I didn't see anything that would indicate it (the patch) would work with  
kernel 2.6.9. I was hoping I didn't have to split up my kernel versions,  
for example a supported CentOS kernel for servers and a unsupported kernel  
for the clients that have the lastest and greatest hardware. I was going  
to give 2.6.9 a quick try and if that didn't work, then go to 2.6.18 which  
is the base for CentOS 5.

Thanks
Paul
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