I just installed a Mitsumi CR-2801TE CD-writer last night. It's an IDE device, Master on the secondary bus (/dev/hdc). My old CD-rom is now Slave on the same bus (/dev/hdd). I have one hard disk, Primary Master(/dev/hda). There is no Primary Slave. I'm starting to think this might be my problem.
Anyway, when I boot, the kernel identifies all the existing IDE devices and then reports the IO and IRQ of the IDE controller, and then launches into a neverending cycle of this (or something very close to this; I didn't write it down): /dev/hdc: unexpected_intr status:0x00 >From my preliminary research on mailing list archives, it looks really ugly; apparently I may have to rewrite part of my kernel (ide.c). My question is this: IS THIS REALLY NECESSARY? Is there any simpler way to do this? Kernel Hacking makes me break out into cold sweats. Is there, perhaps, a more recent kernel in which this problem is fixed? (I heard 2.2 is out...) Or maybe a patch file? Please????
