https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1026
Product: Installation
Component: Installation
Summary: Microdrive recognition disappears during install process
Version: 1.770
Platform: PC
OS/Version: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I installed 9.1 beta 2 on a Compaq Armada M700 (P3, 800Mhz, 128Mb RAM). I left
the IBM 1Gig Microdrive in the PCMCIA slot during the install. At the stage
when install is laying out the disk slices, it recognises both the main hard
disk and the microdrive. By the time we got to the summary where you configure
networking, the card has been transformed into a WinModem. I didn't bother
configuring networking for this device. When Mandrake re-booted, it wouldn't
recognise the card, or go beyond the ide-cs start hde point.
I have read all the correspondence I could find on the Mandrake fora about
Microdrives. I can see that there is some kind of problem with devfs too, but
I don't know whether this is an instance of the same problem, or a separate
issue with installation. In earlier releases of RedHat, there was a block-
major-33 module you could configure on, but I don't find any reference to this
parameter in the expected places (etc/modules.conf).
So while you think about this, I am going to write a script to check every text
file on the freaking hard-disk :-))
Keep up the good work!
Mike Murphy
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