On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 17:48, Jessica Blank wrote: > These messages weren't FROM the boot. I already tried compiling the > ide-disk and ide-mod modules into the kernel... they did not work. So, > getting sick and tired of rebooting the machine around 50 times, I decided > to compile them as modules, so I could quickly work on them, insmod them > and rmmod them.
IDE as module is known brain dead. Compile them on in the kernel and send me the whole dmesg output with the ide-disk compile in. > > > 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 ? > > > > 2.4.20 and... the dmesg is attached. Also, below (in case y'all wanna read > it inline). NOTE: Again, I compiled ide-mod and ide-disk AS MODULES after > getting SICK AND TIRED OF REBOOTING since compiling them into the kernel > itself didn't work either... at the end of this log, you can see the > output generated by me insmodding ide-mod and then ide-disk, twice. As you > can see, ide-mod seems to see the controller (it's a Promise Ultra > DMA/33) but no disks, and ide-disk doesn't seem to do anything useful at > all... Can you try my patches ? (2.4.20-ben10 patch available on kernel.org) and send me a log with those ? Ben.
