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Re: IDE not detected



On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 14:54 -0500, Travis Crump wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > 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?)
> > 
> 
> Because it wouldn't do anything useful?  Because ntfs has nothing to do 
> with the ide controller?

duh.  time for more coffee.

> I've had similar problems with 2.4.27 and in my opinion it is just 
> broken.  2.4.25 works fine though on my sarge system. 2.4.26 may or may 
> not work I haven't extensively tested it.

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