Re: hard drives

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 01:08:39PM -0700, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 July 2001 10:45, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:39:03PM -0700, allen wayne best just ramblin in 
> his amx wrote:
> > > initially, i had the setup as
> > > disk
> > > disk
> > > cd-rom
> > > disk
> > >
> > > with all jumpers (master/slave) appropriatly set.
> > > and as previously noted, redhat 7.1 (2.4.2) saw the configuration,
> > > debian (2.2.12) did not.
> > >
> > > do to double check jumpers, and just out of curiosity, i switched hdc and
> > > hdd. now both linux's see all four drives. (which still begs the question
> > > why debian did not before.... but that is just a side issue now. it
> > > works.
> > >
> > > thanks to martin for his kind help.
> >
> > As a test case case, you could try the debian 2.2.12 kernel in redhat.
> > You'd probably get the same problems in redhat with the same kernel.
> >
> > What is your ide controller, I'll bet it's a driver issue.
> >
> On Monday 16 July 2001 16:44, john wrote:
> > I seem to recall that way back (around 1994, 1995) I found that with a
> > Tekram IDE card (set up as secondary IDE controller) I could only see the
> > last drive if I had it primary on the controller, with the CD as slave. It
> > might be the IDE controller causing you grief - although I'm surprised if
> > that still applies with modern hardware.
> >
> > JPF
> 
> 'bout the only thing i can say about which ide controller is used is that  it 
> is built into the motherboard in a hp vectra vl.
> 
> and the driver version is one thing i did notice: redhat 7.1 has an ide 
> driver version 1.10 whereas debian with 2.2.12 has an ide driver version of 
> 1.08. i am inclinded to believe the difference lies there.
> 

Run /sbin/lspci and paste the output here.

Maybe it'll help someone reading the archives...

Mike