CentOS - Aug 2007 - CentOS v4.5 and Intel 965/G33BY chipsets - PATA support

Greetings CentOS users,

I have run into a hardware issue with the Intel 965 chipset. It appears  
that the latest kernel doesn't support the Marvell PATA controller. I can  
kickstart the computer, but after the OS is installed the DVD drive can't  
be accessed.

There are patches against 2.6.18 for the Marvell PATA controller here:
  http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/16/157

There is bug report ported for RHEL 5.0 and I assume this will apply to  
CentOS 5 also.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=237372

What are my options other that to try to patch the current kernel  
(2.6.9-55.0.2.EL) ?

We have a lab of 24 computer to push out before the start of the term  
(Sept 5/07) ... joy joy

Thanks
Paul

On 8/22/07, Paul Griffith <paulg at cse.yorku.ca>
wrote:
>
> Greetings CentOS users,
>
> I have run into a hardware issue with the Intel 965 chipset. It appears
> that the latest kernel doesn't support the Marvell PATA controller. I
can
> kickstart the computer, but after the OS is installed the DVD drive
can't
> be accessed.
>
> There are patches against 2.6.18 for the Marvell PATA controller here:
>   http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/16/157
>
> There is bug report ported for RHEL 5.0 and I assume this will apply to
> CentOS 5 also.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=237372
>
> What are my options other that to try to patch the current kernel
> (2.6.9-55.0.2.EL) ?
>
> We have a lab of 24 computer to push out before the start of the term
> (Sept 5/07) ... joy joy
>
> Thanks
> Paul
I don't really see any other choice here than rebuilding a kernel
yourself. But did you see somethere that the patch works for kernel
2.6.9 as well?

Akemi