Hi Ralph On 10/03/10 10:38, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Tim, > >> One that's arisen is that I have an IDE tape drive in the machine (at >> /dev/hdd), and the new kernel 2.6.26 hangs at boot (ide-tape). I was >> going to try ide-scsi, but I've learned that that passed into history >> with 2.6. I can live without the drive, so would be grateful for >> advice on how I can prevent the kernel autodetecting the drive. > > Give the kernel boot option > > ide_core.noprobe=I.D > > a try. The I is the interface number, zero-based, the D the device > number, 0 or 1. Change to suit. See > http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.33/Documentation/ide/ide.txt for > (little) more and > http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.33/drivers/ide/ide.c#L181 which parses > it. (Does that code allow negative numbers?) > > Whether this gets in early enough to stop the hang, I don't know.
Well, gave it a go but it's still picked up. Since I can pull the cables I think I'll just settle on that. Thanks Tim -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-04-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
