Re: Regression? 2.6.23.16 -> 2.6.32.9: ide/libata HD recognition

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

CaT wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just had a strange situation with the above upgrade. It was done on an
> old server that used the serverworks ide driver. The IDE hw config under
> 2.6.23.16 was:
> 
> hda:	HD
> hdb:	CDROM
> hdc:	empty
> hdd:	HD
> 
> After upgrade, using either IDE or libata the config changed to:
> 
> hda:	HD
> hdb:	CDROM
> hdc:	empty
> hdd:	empty
> 
> The BIOS recognised the disk. I went through 3 disks and it wasn't until
> I made the second HD a master that it was recognised. So now I have a
> 2.6.32.9 server, using the IDE subsystem with the following config:
> 
> hda:	HD
> hdb:	CDROM
> hdc:	HD
> hdd:	empty
> 
> Otherwise it does not work.
> 
> I had an outage window that I already blew so I was not able to do
> any more diagnosis than what it took to get the system up.
> 
> If anyone wants the full config I'll send. Otherwise:
> 
Could you "ls /sys/block" and post? And /var/log/messages from the start to the 
last device found? Thanks.

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