On Tuesday 17 July 2001 10:45, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:39:03PM -0700, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: > > initially, i had the setup as > > disk > > disk > > cd-rom > > disk > > > > with all jumpers (master/slave) appropriatly set. > > and as previously noted, redhat 7.1 (2.4.2) saw the configuration, > > debian (2.2.12) did not. > > > > do to double check jumpers, and just out of curiosity, i switched hdc and > > hdd. now both linux's see all four drives. (which still begs the question > > why debian did not before.... but that is just a side issue now. it > > works. > > > > thanks to martin for his kind help. > > As a test case case, you could try the debian 2.2.12 kernel in redhat. > You'd probably get the same problems in redhat with the same kernel. > > What is your ide controller, I'll bet it's a driver issue. > > Mike
On Monday 16 July 2001 16:44, john wrote: > I seem to recall that way back (around 1994, 1995) I found that with a > Tekram IDE card (set up as secondary IDE controller) I could only see the > last drive if I had it primary on the controller, with the CD as slave. It > might be the IDE controller causing you grief - although I'm surprised if > that still applies with modern hardware. > > JPF 'bout the only thing i can say about which ide controller is used is that it is built into the motherboard in a hp vectra vl. and the driver version is one thing i did notice: redhat 7.1 has an ide driver version 1.10 whereas debian with 2.2.12 has an ide driver version of 1.08. i am inclinded to believe the difference lies there. -- regards, allen wayne best contractor, diagnostics and support tools telnet 447-4070 "your friendly neighborhood rambler owner" "my rambler will go from 0 to 105" Current date: 47:50:12::197:2001 Today's snit invasion consists of 0.0573905515484512 e +93 snits (Approximated!)
