[oclug] Other disks on an auxiliary IDE controller

[Messier, Jean-Francois]

But why did all other distros of Linux support this card before, but
*not* FC3 ?

JF

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[mailto:oclug-bounces at lists.oclug.on.ca] On Behalf Of james terris
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 19:26 PM
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Subject: RE: [oclug] Other disks on an auxiliary IDE controller


> 	Yep, those are the Promise card. Not the newest
> one, but it is
> known as Promise66. I never had any problem before.
> Only FC3 is giving
> me some hard time now.

The cards are being detected by the BIOS right?

Which kernel are you using? 
Have you tried building them into the kernel?

Alternatively, to test getting access to the cards
you could check the /proc/pci (or whatever the RedHat equivalent is) to
get the io ranges and irqs and then add the corresponding line when you
boot up just to make sure your system can access the cards before you
rebuild the kernel. I'll have to check the exact syntax when I get home
put it's something like: ide4=0x8000,0x7ffb,11 ide5=0x7ff8,0x7ff4,11 but
don't put those numbers in! the first two numbers are the io ranges and
the third number is the irq for that controller. since you already have
four controllers (0-3) the next one would start at number 4.

I hope this helps...

ttyl,
james

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:oclug-bounces at lists.oclug.on.ca] On Behalf Of james terris
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 16:25 PM
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> Subject: Re: [oclug] Other disks on an auxiliary IDE
> controller
> 
> 
> > 	How can I change the config so FC3 detects this
> > other IDE
> > controller and mounts the other disks ?
> 
> Do you know what type of extra controller you have
> in your system (brand or chipset)?
> 
> I'm running a system with two extra controllers in
> it.
> With an old kernel I was using (2.2) I had to
> specify
> the irqs and i/o ranges when starting up (I added
> it to lilo.conf as an append line) but with a newer
> kernel (2.4 I think) I just compiled Promise drivers
> in and it detected it with no problems.
> 
> ttyl,
> james
> 
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