Re: JMicron PATA 2.6.24-rc7 can't find drives

[Marcin Gil <marcin.gil@gmail.com>]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 03:48:23PM +0100, Marcin Gil wrote:
>> Yes, this is 80-wire cable; both are connected on the same cable. HDD is 
>> master and DVD is slave. I'll later try disconnecting DVD and see what 
>> happens. I didn't set cable-select due to how these drives are connected
>>
>> +-----+-----+
>> mobo  hdd   dvd
>>
>> I think that cable select would take dvd as master and hdd as slave.
>> This was not preferable when hdd was my primary drive. I can try 
>> cable-select now since I boot off new SATA drive.
> 
> Does the BIOS see the HD on the jmicron when doing disk detection?
> 
> I remember once forgetting to connect power to a driver and spending a
> while wondering why the drive wasn't showing up anywhere.
> 
Yes, both drives are detected by BIOS. Everything is working fine with 
"old" ATA drivers (ide_disk/ide_cd).

IDE HDD Maxtor was my primary disk but I've recently bought new SATA 
disk and was trying to get rid of ATA.

Thank you,
-Marcin Gil