Machine with kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686-smp /var/log/dmesg: ide: late registration of driver. SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:02.5 SIS5513: chipset revision 0 SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later SIS5513: SiS 962/963 MuTIOL IDE UDMA133 controller ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Machine with kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686 /var/log/dmesg ide: late registration of driver. ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.1 ICH4: chipset revision 1 ICH4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio PDC20268: IDE controller at PCI slot 03:04.0 PDC20268: chipset revision 2 PDC20268: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later PDC20268: ROM enabled at 0xdfee0000 ide2: BM-DMA at 0x9400-0x9407, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio ide3: BM-DMA at 0x9408-0x940f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio PDC20276: IDE controller at PCI slot 03:0e.0 PDC20276: chipset revision 1 PDC20276: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide4: BM-DMA at 0xac00-0xac07, BIOS settings: hdi:pio, hdj:pio ide5: BM-DMA at 0xac08-0xac0f, BIOS settings: hdk:pio, hdl:pio After booting kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686-smp on the first machine or kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686 on the second machine all these drivers are loaded but not initialized and all this /var/log/dmesg output does not appear any more! Putting the drivers into /etc/mkinitrd/modules the modules are not even loaded and when inserting them by hand they show up in the output of lsmod but arent used and no messages in /var/log/dmesg appear. -- Christian Schulte