[debian-knoppix] More on IDE drive problem

[Dave Price <davep@kinaole.org>]

Klaus and others,

I still have one hdd that will not mount under knoppix, although it
works with other linux's.

I have turned OFF scsi emulation in lilo.conf - this helps with the
(other) problem of identifying my cd devices as I am used to, but does
not help with my IDE drive issue.

I _think_ that the problem may be in the ATA32 'assumption' of the IDE
driver, this device is CHS.  here is output from my dmesg:

Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c596a (rev 06) IDE UDMA33 controller on pci00:07.1
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
	    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
		hda: WDC WD84AA R, ATA DISK drive
		hdb: Maxtor 52049U4, ATA DISK drive
		hdc: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-106S 012, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM
		drive
		hdd: WDC WD136AA, ATA DISK drive
		ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
		ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
		hda: 16514064 sectors (8455 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=8191/32/63
		hdb: 40020624 sectors (20491 MB) w/2048KiB Cache,
		CHS=2491/255/63
		hdd: 26564832 sectors (13601 MB) w/2048KiB Cache,
		CHS=26354/16/63
		hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache
		Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
		Partition check:
		 hda: hda1 hda2
		  hdb: [POWERTEC] hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4 hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 hdb8 hdb9
		  hdb10 hdb11 hdb12
		   hdd: hdd1

As you can see, hdb is confused.  It really has a single ext2 partition.

Are there switches, etc. that I can pass to VP_IDE to help it work with
my hardware better?

Do I need to rebuild the kernel with different IDE Support?

BTW,  is where can I find the kernel sources and .config that is used to
build this kernel?  Is it 'stock debian'?

aloha ( and thanks! ),
dave

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