Bug#275356: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-1-686-smp: Can't detect IDE CD rom or IDE ZIP disk on Dell Precision 650

[Tom Epperly <tepperly@llnl.gov>]

Horms wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:06:58AM -0700, Tom Epperly wrote:
>  
>
> > Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686-smp
> > Version: 2.6.8-3
> > Severity: normal
> > File: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-1-686-smp
> >
> > I've got a Dell Precision 650. It's got a SCSI harddisk, a IDE CD-ROM
> > drive, and a IDE ZIP disk. When I boot this kernel, it fails to detect
> > the IDE CD-ROM or IDE ZIP disk. Here is the evidence I have for making
> > this statement:
> > 	1. no IDE devices are listed in /proc/devices
> > 	2. mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 says
> > 	   /dev/hdc is not a valid block device
> > 	3. The normal lines in /var/log/dmesg where each
> > 	   device reports itself are missing. The only ide
> > 	   related message is as follows
> > ReiserFS: sda1: Using r5 hash to sort names
> > Adding 1172736k swap on /dev/sda2.  Priority:-1 extents:1
> > Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
> > Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
> > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
> > idebus=xx
> > Capability LSM initialized
> > ReiserFS: sda7: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
> > ReiserFS: sda7: using ordered data mode
> >
> > My /etc/modules file has ide-cd, ide-detect and sd_mod in it. 
> > b3427test1:/var/log# modprobe ide-detect
> > FATAL: Module ide_detect not found.
> >    
>
> ide-detect does not exist in 2.6.
> Are you sure you have the correct ide drivers insmoded ?
>  
The /etc/modules file is the one that was generated when I installed 
from a Sarge install CD. Is there another module that does what 
ide-detect does? Do you have any suggestions for configuration changes 
that might fix this problem?

Thanks,

Tom