Ben: Found your patches, installing 'em, compiling IDE into the kernel itself (i.e. not as a module). Will send dmesg if that dunna fix my problem. Thanks!
On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 17:48, Jessica Blank wrote: > > > These messages weren't FROM the boot. I already tried compiling the > > ide-disk and ide-mod modules into the kernel... they did not work. So, > > getting sick and tired of rebooting the machine around 50 times, I decided > > to compile them as modules, so I could quickly work on them, insmod them > > and rmmod them. > > IDE as module is known brain dead. Compile them on in the kernel and > send me the whole dmesg output with the ide-disk compile in. > > > > > This is very frustrating. > > > > > > > > And yes, I have already checked the connections to the disk. They are > > > > fine. :) > > > > > > Can you send me the complete dmesg log along with the version of the > > > kernel you are using ? > > > > > > > 2.4.20 and... the dmesg is attached. Also, below (in case y'all wanna read > > it inline). NOTE: Again, I compiled ide-mod and ide-disk AS MODULES after > > getting SICK AND TIRED OF REBOOTING since compiling them into the kernel > > itself didn't work either... at the end of this log, you can see the > > output generated by me insmodding ide-mod and then ide-disk, twice. As you > > can see, ide-mod seems to see the controller (it's a Promise Ultra > > DMA/33) but no disks, and ide-disk doesn't seem to do anything useful at > > all... > > Can you try my patches ? (2.4.20-ben10 patch available on kernel.org) > and send me a log with those ? > > Ben. > J e s s i c a L e a h B l a n k
