Comment 33 for bug 116996

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José Tomás Atria (jtatria) wrote : Re: [Bug 116996] Re: sata disk in ide mode with kernel 2.6.20-16-generic (ata_piix broken?)

just to summarize:

I have an ICH5 chipset.
All my references are made through UUID's, not /dev (this includes
/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume, /etc/fstab and
/boot/grub/menu.lst)
I do not see any problems with resume images.
I get IRQ timeouts on my devices.

SItsofe reports that with an updated ICH5 controller, the IRQ's no
longer appear (even using dev references?). I have to see if i can
confirm this with a BIOS update.

I would generalize form the above that
1.- 'IRQ' and 'resume not found' are two different things,
2.- 'IRQ' affects only ICH4 and ICH5 chipsets with older BIOS'es, wich
are *quite* common, ICH7 and ICH5 with new BIOS'es work fine.
3.- resume images are a problem with references not being updated
after the kernel update. Since this is not *critical* for the kernel
boot process, you can still boot by disregarding the resume and doing
a clean boot ("press enter to boot")... right?

Unless i lost some piece of the puzzle around here...

ps: i repeat, i have 0 experiencie with kernel things, this is just my
take on the matter, i could be totally lost here.