I have finally installed 2.4.21-rc3. I compiled the base IDE driver into the
kernel but make the ide-disk driver a module (to save RAM on machines without
IDE hardware).
Following is a selection from the kernel message log. As you can see I get
some nasty and worrying error messages when the kernel tries to access
/dev/hda before the ide-disk module is loaded.
If this is not a known bug then let me know so I can send it to linux-kernel.
ReiserFS seems to be working fine in 2.4.21-rc3.
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta3-.2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:07.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1c10-0x1c17, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1c18-0x1c1f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: IC25N030ATCS04-0, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c02a8680, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Partition check:
hda:end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 4
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 6
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 4
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 6
unable to read partition table
[boring stuff removed]
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 58605120 sectors (30006 MB) w/1768KiB Cache, CHS=3876/240/63, UDMA(33)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p4 < p5 p6 p7 p8 >
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