Re: Fw: max number of ide controllers?

["Charles Wilkins" <chas@pcscs.com>]

> Charles Wilkins writes:
> > Andrzej M. Krzysztofowicz says,
> >
> > >"Linux supports up to 10 IDE channels, however channel numbers of PCI
> > controllers seem to be assigned first."
> >
> > Warren Young says,
> > >"Kernel 2.2 is limited to 4 IDE controllers."
> >
> > ok, so which is it kernel guys, 4 or 10 IDE controllers for the 2.2.x
> > kernel?
>
> It depends if you have Andre's IDE patches applied to your kernel sources

I have ide.2.2.18.1209.patch applied. The kernel is 2.2.18.
So what is the answer? 4 controllers max or 10 for my kernel?

> or not.
>
> > well, i know this SB32 card can operating on at least 3 different io
ports .
> > . .
>
> It may be that there is some difficulty in the order the IDE cards are
> initialized.  From your previous dmesg output, it appears that ide3 and
ide4
> (PCI cards) are initialized before ide2 (ISA card), so they may be
stealing
> an ioport that the ISA card needs.  Try booting with just the SB32 card
> and checking /proc/ioports, and then with only the other card, and see
> if anything in /proc/ioports (or /proc/interrupts) is conflicting.
>

I have done this. There are no conflicts.
SB32 uses 0x168-0x16f,0x36e,10 and nothing else does.

What would be the correct kernel command to manually set up the SB32 as ide
4 for the above resources?

Kernel 2.4.0-test12 picks up the SB32 controller even with the promise
controller is installed, but I would prefer to stay with the stable 2.2.x
kernel if possible.

Charles

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