>> 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-)
Hmm. if the cd works fine in 95, you might want to check the relevant kernel
settings. What is the chipset used with that mb ? TX? Do you have any pnp
cards ?
--j
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