On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 16:24, Jessica Blank wrote: > I am having a big problem here. > > My nice little "CD burning server", under my bed, is crippled because the > large (40GB) IDE drive in it simply does not detect. > > This is a KNOWN WORKING drive. I just pulled it out of a working system. > > I've tried compiling IDE Disk Support and the Promise controller driver > (the two necessary modules, of course) as modules, and I've tried > compiling them straight into the kernel. NEITHER WORKS. > > When I insert ide-mod and ide-disk, I get: > > Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver > Revision: 6.31 > Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for > PIO modes; override with idebus=xx > Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel: PDC20246: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev > 70 > Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel: PDC20246: chipset revision 1 > Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel: PDC20246: not 100%% native mode: will > probe irqs later > Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel: PDC20246: ROM enabled at 0x80810000 > Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel: PDC20246: (U)DMA Burst Bit DISABLED > Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode. > Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel: ide2: BM-DMA at 0x0800-0x0807, BIOS > settings: hde:DMA, hdf:DMA > Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel: ide3: BM-DMA at 0x0808-0x080f, BIOS > settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:DMA > > .......however, as you can see, it does not detect the disk itself!
Actually, I can't see as the disk probing happens later during boot... > This is very frustrating. > > And yes, I have already checked the connections to the disk. They are > fine. :) Can you send me the complete dmesg log along with the version of the kernel you are using ? Ben.
