On Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 11:20:13AM -0400, Leslie Everett wrote:
> I've read throught your last message and have been trying to mount my
> "Kanguru PCMCIA portable IDE 2.1 Gig HD" and this is what happens.I
> insert the PC card and get this message:
> "ide_cs: ide_register () at 0x100 & 0x10e, irq 3 failed"
I'm afraid I don't know what that means, exactly. Since it tried to insmod
the ide_cs driver it obviously recognised the fact that you inserted an
IDE device so something may have gone wrong after that. If there are any
other messages in /var/log/messages then that might give a clue (at least it
should have told you that it was inserting the module). However I'm no
expert and not really likely to be able to fix it if it's gone wrong.
> I have no "ide" nor "ide.opts" module. When I look in /etc/pcmcia:
[list not containing any ide stuff]
The Red Hat pcmcia package confuses me slightly: it contains the ide_cs
module but doesn't contain the /etc/pcmcia/ide* stuff. I can't test any of
this because I'm running a custom kernel and I compiled the pcmcia package
myself to match. If you are using the standard Red Hat pcmcia package
then you might have more luck grabbing pcmcia-cs-3.0.9 and compiling it
yourself. In order for IDE devices to work properly the kernel must have
been compiled with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_PCMCIA enabled (again, I don't know
and can't test whether the standard Red Hat kernel contains this but the
pcmcia configure script suggests that you can find out by seeing whether the
command: /sbin/ksyms -a | egrep ide_register produces any output. This is
for 2.0 kernels; 2.2 kernels don't need this. Actually on second thoughts
I still have the System.map file from the original Red Hat install and it
does contain this symbol.).
> Also, what syntax should I
> to refer to a mountpoint? hdc?
If the IDE device is successfully registered as hdc then you should be able to
mount partitions in the usual way, e.g.
mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/kanguru
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