Issues with SiS 962 Southbridge & sis5513 IDE drivers

[Philip Prindeville]

My bad.  Removed the heatsink and looked again... It's actually
an SiS 964 Southbridge, not a 962 or 963.

But... the problem remains.

Philip Prindeville wrote:

> I'm trying to install FC3 on an AMD NX1750S Geode board which
> has the SiS 741CX + 963 (or 962) NB/SB chipset.
>
> I couldn't get any of the drivers to recognize the IDE controller in
> "native" mode, so I put them into Legacy mode and managed to
> install...
>
> I then went back and put the controller into "Native" mode, but
> when I reboot the system panics because it can't find any logical
> volumes to mount...  which I suspect is because the kernel sis5513
> driver doesn't recognize the chipset.
>
> Are there any known issues with the sis5513 drivers?  And will
> the disk have been written differently in Legacy mode versus
> Native mode?  Or should it still be consistent either way in the
> case that I do manage to get the sis5513 drivers to recognize the
> controller...
>
> Because if they don't, then I'd have to reinstall from scratch and
> it might not be worth the trouble.
>
> Is there any advantage to using the controllers in Native mode over
> Legacy mode?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Philip
>