HP Compaq 2510p - No HD detection
Alan Cox
alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Tue Sep 18 21:23:14 UTC 2007
> The new disk driver (libata) wraps in SATA, and IDE drives. Since it
> is now the default in F7, and since it is not as mature as the old IDE
> drivers, it sometimes fails to pick them up.
More likely as the machine is pre-production it contains unknown IDE
device types. The old kernels (FC6 and earlier) included a generic
ISA style fallback driver which FC7 does not and would thus drive unknown
chipsets. Thats purely a compile time choice of the kernel builder.
Alan
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