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



It was pulled out of a PeeCee Debian box. And to answer your question:
Yes. My "Partition Types" setup (for the record, I am using KERNEL VERSION
2.4.20...) looks like this:

  x x     [*] Advanced partition selection
  x x     [ ]   Acorn partition support
  x x     [ ]   Alpha OSF partition support
  x x     [ ]   Amiga partition table support
  x x     [ ]   Atari partition table support
  x x     [*]   Macintosh partition map support
  x x     [*]   PC BIOS (MSDOS partition tables) support
  x x     [*]     BSD disklabel (FreeBSD partition tables) support
  x x     [ ]     Minix subpartition support
  x x     [ ]     Solaris (x86) partition table support
  x x     [ ]     Unixware slices support
  x x     [ ]   SGI partition support
  x x     [ ]   Ultrix partition table support
  x x     [ ]   Sun partition tables support
  x x     [ ]   EFI GUID Partition support

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote:

> 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?
>
>
> --
> Earthling Michel Dänzer   \  Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
> Software libre enthusiast  \     http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
>

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