Hello,
The card is a PCI card which I had to use to access a new hdd. The
system bios would not access the drive. Yes, I can boot off of it. I
have 2 hds attached to it. After I get the OS up, both drives are
available. This was not the case when I first installed the card. I
opened a trouble ticket with Fedora as Fedora would not recognize the
slave drive - only the master. The card has an ITE IT8212 controller
chip. I don't understand your questions about bios disk number or the
play nice with the BIOS boot spec. How do I find the answers to these
questions?
The Fedora Bugzilla bug number is 344231 in case you would like to read
about my original problem.
Thank you for the quick response.
Vince Radice
Message: 2
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:38:08 -0600
From: "Andrei E. Warkentin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Guidance
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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My understanding, as a user of GRUB, was that GRUB relied on the
system BIOS to perform any disk I/O, thunk to RM to invoke INT 0x13
for all disk accesses.
Is the disk controller visible for the system BIOS? Can you boot off
of it? Is there a bios disk number assigned to it? Does it play nice
with the BIOS Boot Specification or does hook INT 19?
28.11.2007, × 11:25, Vince Radice ÐÉÓÁÌ(Á):
I am having a problem with GRUB 1 and 2. It seems that neither
version correctly works with my IDE controller. I have 2 hdds but
grub (both versions) only recognize the first. From what I can
determine, I am unique in having this problem and the only way to
get it fixed is to do it myself. So, here is my request - can
someone point me to the module that would determine the type of IDE
controller installed where I would have to insert some code to have
the controller report the correct number of hdds attached? I have
downloaded the source code for grub2.
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Vince Radice
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