Re: hdb: driver not present
hi ya jonathan
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:07:53 +0000,
> Jonathan Melhuish <lists@netacclaim.co.uk> wrote in message
> <[🔎] 3FDE22A9.7030500@netacclaim.co.uk>:
>
> > After having recently installed Debian 3.0 over Mandrake, I'm trying
> > to get all my hardware working again :-(
> >
> > Although the boot messages initially correctly identify all 4 drives
> > (two hard drives, CD-RW, CD-ROM), it seems only the primary hard disk
> > is usable. During boot, I noticed it say "mod-probe: can't locate
> > module ide-disk" followed by "hdb: driver not present". The primary
> > disk is a Maxtor, the secondary a Seagate, if that's relevant. Both
> > were working fine under Mandrake with no further configuration.
hopefully hda is maxtor and seagate is hdb
( both capable of ata-100 or ata-133 ), otherwise, ...
its a (very) bad idea to mix diffferent speed drives on the
same ide cable...
- if everybody is talking ata-133... the slow cdrom running
at ata-33/66 will hold everybody back to its slow speed
- its cheaper to get a $20 ide controller and put the slow cdrom/cdrw
on its own ide controller
- 1 drive per cable
- for the cdrw, you will need to load the ide-scsi and associated
modules for it
http://www.Linux-1U.net/CDRW
( see list of modules you'd need )
- for the cdrom, if it doesnt support dma, you need to tell the
kernel that dma is off for that cdrom
c ya
alvin
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