Re: Old hdd and cdrom errors at bootup

[Miroslav Maiksnar <m.maiksnar@volny.cz>]

V Ne, 22. 02. 2004 v 18:32, Deboo píše:
> I had 2 hard disks and one cd drive of which I remove one hard disk and
> the cd drive (they were not there when I installed debian too, had
> added them later). But now when booting, I get timeouts for them:
> 
> hda: SAMSUNG SV0401H, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xfffffff8)
> hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xfffffff8)
> hdc: no response (status = 0x0a), resetting drive
> hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xfffffff8)
> hdc: no response (status = 0x0a)
> hdd: IRQ probe failed (0xfffffff8)
> hdd: IRQ probe failed (0xfffffff8)
> hdd: no response (status = 0x0a), resetting drive
> hdd: IRQ probe failed (0xfffffff8)
> hdd: no response (status = 0x0a)
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> 
> I commented any lines in /etc/fstab about both of them but still I get
> them. What is causing these errors? Why is debian trying to access them or
> mount them at boot when they aren't there in fstab?

Kernel probes all drives present in system. Look into
/usr/src/kernel-source-<version>/Documentation/ide.txt
for further info. Try hd{c|d}={noprobe|none|slow} to kernel commandline.

Mixi