From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757846AbYDBQeN (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Apr 2008 12:34:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756255AbYDBQd6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Apr 2008 12:33:58 -0400 Received: from mail.atlantis.sk ([80.94.52.35]:58467 "EHLO mail.atlantis.sk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756182AbYDBQd5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Apr 2008 12:33:57 -0400 From: Ondrej Zary To: Frans Pop Subject: Re: No IDE drivers loaded for Toshiba Satellite 320 CDS Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 18:33:46 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz References: <200804021524.27222.elendil@planet.nl> In-Reply-To: <200804021524.27222.elendil@planet.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200804021833.49295.linux@rainbow-software.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 02 April 2008 15:24:26 Frans Pop wrote: > Hi, > > We've received an installation report for Debian for an older system where > no IDE driver gets loaded. The system does not have any IDE device listed > in lspci. When ide-generic is modprobed manually, both the CD and hard disk > work fine. > > Any suggestions on how such a system could be recognized? > If we could do that, the installation system could take responsibility for > loading ide-generic and making sure it is included in the initrd. > > Or even better, any chance to make the kernel/udev load ide-generic > automatically for this system? > > See http://bugs.debian.org/472487 for details. I can get additional info > from the owner of the system if needed. > > Cheers, > FJP > > Output of lspci -nn: > 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Toshiba America Info Systems CPU to PCI bridge > [1179:0601] (rev a0) > 00:04.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Chips and Technologies F65555 > HiQVPro [102c:00e5] (rev c6) > 00:0b.0 USB Controller [0c03]: NEC Corporation USB [1033:0035] (rev 02) > 00:11.0 Communication controller [0780]: Toshiba America Info Systems FIR > Port [1179:0701] (rev 21) > 00:13.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97 > [1179:060f] (rev 20) > 00:13.1 CardBus bridge [0607]: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97 > [1179:060f] (rev 20) Looks like the controller is not a separate PCI device. Toshiba provides Bus Mastering driver for Windows 95: http://209.167.114.38/support/download/files_Archive/Index/windows_95_files.htm So the controller probably can do DMA but it's not a standard IDE controller. And looks like there's no driver in the kernel for it. -- Ondrej Zary