Hmm, okay. Will that command line argument turn the IDE controller on by itself though? Or is that kernel patch still needed? I think you had said before that you turn the controller on in linuxbios for every board that you use, correct?
On 16 Nov 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > I have just tested with 2.4.11-pre4 but I believe the > code went in much earlier. > > I added ``hda=cyl,head,sec'' to the kernel command line > and the kernel waited for the drive to spin up. The > wait was short so I have a little trouble being certain > that happened. > > This seems to work but it does cause a kernel panic if the > drive is not there. > > Anyway I would be interested in other peoples experiences > with this. But this seems to work about as well as the > patch that floats around. > > Eric >
