Re: 2.4.18 (and maybe earlier versions) can't see my IDE disks where 2.2 can

Denis Vlasenko
2002-07-01T06:59:06Z

On 30 June 2002 17:22, Nix wrote:
> I'm using a ten year old 486 as a firewall, with an aged transparent
> 2.5Mb Promise caching IDE controller managing a couple of fairly
> bog-standard IDE disks (one a 420Mb 1989-vintage Western Digital of some
> kind, the other a 1994-vintage 1Gb IBM disk). I can't find out the model
> numbers without taking the machine to pieces, because even with 2.2.20
> the (new) ide driver says

If 2.4 kernel does not work:
Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org> [09 apr 2002]
ATA/ATAPI Storage Architect [2.0,2.2,2.4]
HBA interface developer
Serial ATA Architect [future release]
Voting NCITS member AT-Attachment Committee

If 2.5 kernel does not work:
Martin Dalecki <martin@dalecki.de> [11 mar 2002]
IDE subsystem maintainer for 2.5
(mail Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> too)

Include lspci data and .config
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