[wellylug] new hard disk problems

[Enkidu]

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:12:46 +0100 (BST), you wrote:

> --- Mark Signal wrote: 
>
>> Thanks
>> 
>> I have this -
>> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=m
>> presumably this means the chipdset driver loads as a
>> module?
>> 
>That's right.
>>
>> and this seems normal?
>>
>It probably doesn't hurt to replace '=m' with '=y', in
>case the kernel is trying to enable DMA prior to
>modules being loaded.  (You need the standard ide
>driver and ext2/ext3/reiserfs/yourfs driver to be =y
>for the same reason -- the kernel can't load the
>modules if it can't read the modules files!).
>
>You will of course need to recompile the kernel.  On
>Debian, it's as easy as:
>
>0. backup your system in case I'm wrong!!!
>1. su root
>2. apt-get kernel-source-2.6.x (where x is the version
>you have now).
>3. cd /usr/src && tar -xvjf
>kernel-source-2.6.x.tar.bz2
>4. cd kernel-source-2.6.x.tar.bz2 && cp
>/boot/config-2.6.x .config
>5. make menuconfig (then change the VIA device from m
>to y, exit and save configuration)
>6. If 5 doesn't work, do 'make oldconfig' and
>following that, edit the .config file manually to
>replace =m with =y.
>7. make-kpkg kernel_image
>8. cd .. # to /usr/src
>9. You should see a .deb package here.  Install using
>dpkg -i packagename.deb and follow the instructions.
>10. Reboot.  Tada!
>
You'd probably need the kernel headers too, unless you had them
already.

Cheers,

Cliff