Re: siimage driver

[John T Copeland <johnc@neto.com>]

Andre Hedrick wrote:

>Until the device ordering can be sorted out, your pain will be the
>following:
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>ide0=0x1f0,0x3f6,14 ide1=0x170,0x376,15
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>Cheers,
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>Andre Hedrick
>LAD Storage Consulting Group
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>On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, John T Copeland wrote:
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>>Alan,
>>A couple of questions if you please.
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>>1)  When I compile the siimage driver into the kernel, the ide buses are 
>>scanned in the following order:
>>  IDE0 - SATA primary - hda, hdb
>>  IDE1 - SATA secondary - hdc, hdd
>>  IDE2 - ATA tertiary - hde, hdf
>>  IDE3 - ATA quandrary hdg, hdh
>>I want the ATA to be IDE0/1  and SATA to be IDE2/3.  I have noticed from 
>>some of the posts about the siimage driver on the ASUS nforce2 mobo this 
>>is the apparent order scanned.  My mobo is an Abit NF7-S nforce2.  Is 
>>there someway of controlling the order of scannin the IDE buses?  I 
>>tried append="ide=reverse" to no avail.
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>>2) To try and get the nforce2 IDE buses scanned first, I compiled 
>>siimage as a module, but when I did an "insmod siimage" I get an 
>>unresolved external, "noautodma", in siimage.
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>>I'd appreciate any help you can offer.
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>>Thanks,
>>John Copeland
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Thanks Andre, that gets the job done.
JohnC