Well, actually, I anticipated a such a response from DFI. It isn't the first time I have recieved a reply in which manufacturers have told me that they didn't want anything to do with me because they didn't know anything about any other OS other than Windows. It is sad, actually. Anyway, I have recently posted the following message to the linux-newbie mailing list, so they are now warned about DFI motherboards and DFI support. *Post to linux-newbie -- Well, it would appear that I have solved the kernel CDROM blindness problem with my DFI P5BV3+ mobo. I reconfigured my hardware this evening, putting the CDROM drive on the primary controller as a slave and putting my Linux system on its hard drive as the master on the secondary controller. The BIOS still doesn't assign an IRQ to the secondary controller, but at least Linux recognizes the drive and can boot from it using a floppy. Morale of the story: - Don't bother with DFI motherboards, at least the P5BV3+, if you have more than one hard drive and a CDROM drive. - Attach your drives so that the CDROM drive is the slave on the primary controller. other drives should follow on the secondary controller. - Read Documentation/ide.txt if you have an ide question. - Don't give up. There is more than one way to skin a cat (and if you are skillful, it may look like a rabbit). BTW, my BIOS still does not assign the secondary controller an IRQ and it refuses to recognize my WDC Caviar 32500 drive on the secondary controller. (Fortunately, Linux is smarter than my BIOS. Chalk another one up for Open Source!) Cheers, Sean -- end post*. So, how did you put it? Have a nice day? Best regards, and don't count on my future business, Sean On 7/30/99 20:41, kam at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: T. Sean (Theo) Schulze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 11:45 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Assigning IRQ to Secondary IDE Controller > > >Hello, > >I have a P5BV3+ Rev. CEO+ running with an AMD K6-2 400MHz CPU and 64MB >RAM. The computer contains two hard drives: a Western Digital 13GB drive >as the master on the primary IDE controller and a WDC 2.5GB drive as the >slave on that controller. An Acer Vuego 685A 8x CDROM Drive is set up as >the master on the secondary IDE controller. I run both Windows98 and >Linux. When the system boots, the BIOS recognizes all three drives, but >only lists one IDE controller in the PCI device list. It assigns it IRQ >14. > >This is not a problem for Windows98, and it can see and access the CDROM >drive. Linux 2.0.36 kernels can also see the secondary IDE controller >and assign it an IRQ. Linux 2.2.x kernels, however, see the secondary >IDE controller, but do not assign it an IRQ. When I try to mount the >CDROM drive under Linux, I receive an error message: "mount: the kernel >does not recognize /dev/hdc as a block device (maybe 'insmod driver'?)" >I believe that this happens because the BIOS is not assigning the >secondary IDE controller an IRQ. > >How can I set the BIOS on my P5BV3+ motherboard to assign an IRQ, >preferably 15, to the secondary IDE controller? > >TIA, >Sean > > > T. Sean (Theo) Schulze >**************************************************** > Caught in the 'net at: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] >**************************************************** > >Hi Sean, > >Since Linux doesn't have a standard version so that there is no driver or >Bios to fit the Linux requirement yet. Sorry about that. >Have a nice day, > >Kam Wong >Techsupport >DFI > T. Sean (Theo) Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] Overheard in the Deep Ops Planning Cell: "Yeah, but remember, Custer *died* in a 'target-rich environment'!"
