On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 01:08:39PM -0700, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: > On Tuesday 17 July 2001 10:45, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:39:03PM -0700, allen wayne best just ramblin in > his amx wrote: > > > initially, i had the setup as > > > disk > > > disk > > > cd-rom > > > disk > > > > > > with all jumpers (master/slave) appropriatly set. > > > and as previously noted, redhat 7.1 (2.4.2) saw the configuration, > > > debian (2.2.12) did not. > > > > > > do to double check jumpers, and just out of curiosity, i switched hdc and > > > hdd. now both linux's see all four drives. (which still begs the question > > > why debian did not before.... but that is just a side issue now. it > > > works. > > > > > > thanks to martin for his kind help. > > > > As a test case case, you could try the debian 2.2.12 kernel in redhat. > > You'd probably get the same problems in redhat with the same kernel. > > > > What is your ide controller, I'll bet it's a driver issue. > > > On Monday 16 July 2001 16:44, john wrote: > > I seem to recall that way back (around 1994, 1995) I found that with a > > Tekram IDE card (set up as secondary IDE controller) I could only see the > > last drive if I had it primary on the controller, with the CD as slave. It > > might be the IDE controller causing you grief - although I'm surprised if > > that still applies with modern hardware. > > > > JPF > > 'bout the only thing i can say about which ide controller is used is that it > is built into the motherboard in a hp vectra vl. > > and the driver version is one thing i did notice: redhat 7.1 has an ide > driver version 1.10 whereas debian with 2.2.12 has an ide driver version of > 1.08. i am inclinded to believe the difference lies there. >
Run /sbin/lspci and paste the output here. Maybe it'll help someone reading the archives... Mike