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

[Horms <horms@debian.org>]

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 ?

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Horms