[haiku-development] Re: Filesystem corruption and Alpha-1

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Zenja Solaja<solaja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My primary PC uses the nForce 590 chipset (Asus m32n-SLI), for which the ATA
> driver doesn't work.  For me it's not a big deal since I know that I have to
> customise a haiku build with the IDE driver.  I'm pretty sure that everyone
> on this list knows how compile a custom haiku image.  However, once Haiku
> hits the streets and people try the official releases, how will they get to
> use the old IDE driver without recompiling?  This isn't Gentoo, and
> releasing 2 versions of Haiku is also silly, so what we really need is a
> mechanism for the user to select the IDE driver when booting.

No, that just means we need to figure out why the ATA driver fails on
that chipset. Can you supply any further information i.e. serial logs
or whatnot? Does it just hang, or does it panic, or what?

Regards,

Rene

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