To re-cap: Both my external modem and my parallel-port Zip drive were
working fine in RH 5.2 (and Win '95, but who cares). I tried installing
both RH6.0 and LM6.0 and neither seemed to be able to find either the
modem nor the Zip. After that, even RH5.2 would not reinstall and detect
them.
I'm not sure *exactly* which setting did it, but I got RH5.2 working
again by playing with the BIOS. Once that happened, I thought I'd play
around with trying to upgrade/install the 6.0 products again. *Neither*
worked. They both fail to detect my Zip drive. *However* I did notice
this little detail. In RH5.2, during the boot process, the following
shows up:
ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcf0-0xfcf7
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcf8-0xfcff
(That is exact because I can get it from 'dmesg'.) In the boot process
for both the 6.0 distributions, I remember seeing something about the IDE
controller. It seemed like an error, but didn't seem fatal so I pretty
much dismissed it. I think it was something like:
IDE controller not 100% native
will probe for IRQs later
I will try to get the exact message if someone thinks it will help.
Anyway, does this give anyone any ideas?
For now, this isn't an emergency. I'm running fine in RH5.2, but I'd like
the "automatic" 2.2 kernel and library updates I can get if I upgrade.
Thanks in advance for your help (and also for that which has already been
given).
~Mike
