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Re: IDE not detected



On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 09:43 -0800, mamas wrote:
> My Debian testing system (2.4.27-1-386) has two SCSI hds and SCSI DVD
> reader and CD burner. The only ide device is a 60GB hd in which I
> installed a WinXP environment.
> Linux is booting without problems, but it does not detect (discover1)
> the ide controller and drive, thus making it impossibile to mount the
> ntfs WinXP disk.
> Before installing "testing" I had tried "stable", which did not have
> this problem.
> Is there something I can do, without reinstalling or recompiling, to
> make Linux "notice" the presence of my IDE disk?

Why not just manually add the drive to your /etc/fstab, and put
ntfs in your /etc/modules?  (Or, better yet, build ntfs directly
into the kernel?)

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