I just came across this thread and wanted to report that this bug is affecting a number of my servers as well.
The servers come from the factory using a PATA flash drive for bootup and software, and use 4 SATA drives for raid data store. This is a nice and efficient setup since the SATA drives can be replaced without affecting the flash OS drive. This setup worked fine in prior kernel used on these machines (2.6.19). A few months ago I tried to upgrade the kernel with Debian stock. Linux debian 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Sun Jul 26 21:25:33 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux The boot sequence failed with ATA_PIIX not detecting the PATA boot drive. This is significant because the Debian kernel cannot be used at all on these systems. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
