Jaakko Niemi writes:
> 
> >> Jaakko Niemi writes:
> >> > 
> >> > >> All was good until I changed motherboards. All of a sudden now, the 
> >> > >> secondary
> >> > >> IDE bus does not properly detect the cdrom drive. The screen shows 
> >> > >> the IDE
> >> > >> primary bus as being probed, but no secondary bus. I use LILO to 
> >> > >> boot. How can
> >> > >> I get the kernel (2.0.32) to properly probe/detect the secondary IDE 
> >> > >> bus?
> >> > 
> >> >  Does the BIOS find your CD ? 
> >> > 
> >> 
> >> Yes, The BIOS does properly identify the CDrom Drive. Funny thing , now 
> >> that I
> >> think about it, is that Win95 could not see the secondary IDE bus or the 
> >> CDROM
> >> drive until I loaded a driver under Win95 (supplied by the MB 
> >> manufacturer).
> >> Perhaps the registers for the secondary IDE bus are sufficiently different
> >> from the "norm" that a special driver is needed.
> 
>  That's a reeaally old 95 'buglet' that it did not recognize the secondary IDE
>  channel on Intel chipsets and at worst disabled it entarily. 
> 
>  If you do a cat /proc/interrupts , do you see int. 15 allocated to ide1 
> there?

NO, only IDE0 is present. A stand-alone PCI bus probe program would come in
handy right about now 8-)

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