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linux-source-2.6.20 package

  1. Bug #37382
  2. Comment #20

Comment 20 for bug 37382

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Kevin Woo (kwoo) wrote :

Had a similar problem. Have a PATA cdrom drive and a SATA hard drive on a ICHM6 chipset. According to the libata FAQ, Intel chipsets like this combine the PATA and SATA functions and the IDE and libata drivers fight. Fixed it by adding "combined_mode=libata" to the kernel parameters in GRUB. Has booted multiple times without this problem now.

Got the information from:
http://linux-ata.org/faq.html#combined