The immediate problem I am trying to address is the following error reported in /var/log/messages:
PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 40, VID=1095, DID=0643 I have downloaded and expanded my kernel source code (2.2.12), which did include the desired driver source: /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12/drivers/block/cmd646.c However, there appeared to be no precompiled module file as far as I could tell, and 'modconf' only has 5 entries in the block category (cmd64x is not one of them). I ran the following command for compiling the driver, as suggested on a website: gcc -DMODULE -D_KERNEL_ -O6 -c cmd646.c This produces several screens of error messages and I can't seem to capture them by appending ' > cmd646.out' to the end of the command. In any event, this leads to the greater question of strategy. Am I correct in assuming that these sorts of issues should be worked out before I finally re-compile kernel for my system? Thanks in advance for any help, corrections, tips, and advice on different configuration approaches. - g
