> I tried Dachstein this afternoon and this works with both devices on the same > IDE channel, unfortunately I've messed up the network settings for the > moment. Ideally I'd like to stick with Bering as that is where most of my > experience is. The question is: is this likely to be a kernel issue?
Probably a kernel level driver issue. Which modules and/or kernel are you using with Dachstein that works? IIRC (I'd have to look at the .config files to be sure), if you are installing IDE modules at run-time with Dachstein, they are *NOT* doing any advanced chipset or DMA support, while if you use the kernel with IDE compiled in, lots more fancy IDE stuff is enabled. This could be at least one major source of difference, besides the 2.2 vs 2.4 kernel. > Am I not loading enough modules? - I have the standard IDE stuff in /boot/lib/modules > plus vfat. I'm not real familiar with the 2.4 kernels...you might check the Documentation directory of a 2.4.<whatever Bering uses> source tree and see if you can gleen any info about the various IDE drivers. I'd think you *SHOULD* be able to get your 486 system to work with 2.4 if it works with the Dachstein 2.2 kernel...the 486 era systems had the simplest IDE interfaces (no DMA, no high-speed transfer modes, just a couple of chip-select-decodes of the disk controller address space and some bus transcievers). If not, it definately sounds like a bug... > Anyone got any similar experiences? had success? I suspect I'm on > my own here. No experience or success here, but I'll still try to help :-P Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
