Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Fre, 2003-04-11 at 16:24, Jessica Blank wrote:
> 
> My nice little "CD burning server", under my bed, is crippled because the
> large (40GB) IDE drive in it simply does not detect.
> 
> This is a KNOWN WORKING drive. I just pulled it out of a working system.

[...]

> Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel: PDC20246: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev
> 70
> Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel: PDC20246: chipset revision 1
> Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel: PDC20246: not 100%% native mode: will
> probe irqs later
> Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel: PDC20246: ROM enabled at 0x80810000
> Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel: PDC20246: (U)DMA Burst Bit DISABLED
> Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode.
> Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel:     ide2: BM-DMA at 0x0800-0x0807, BIOS
> settings: hde:DMA, hdf:DMA
> Apr 11 10:19:28 gandalf kernel:     ide3: BM-DMA at 0x0808-0x080f, BIOS
> settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:DMA
> 
> .......however, as you can see, it does not detect the disk itself!

Have you built support for whatever type the partition table on the disk
is?


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