Re: my kernel won't recognize ide drives

2010-03-23 Thread Dominic Ringuet
There is a problem I meet from time to time while trying to minimize the size of my kernel; using only the mainboard drivers fail without success. You also have to compile the generic ide drivers into the kernel. On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 5:01 AM, Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel < trollf...@googlemail.co

Re: my kernel won't recognize ide drives

2010-03-19 Thread Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel
William Immendorf schrieb: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Scott Kopel wrote: >> So the question is what kernel configuration changes do I have to make to >> get the kernel to recognize my ide drives? I realize that new kernels name >> ide drives sdx and that's fine. I don't need them to be l

Re: my kernel won't recognize ide drives

2010-03-18 Thread linux fan
On 3/18/10, Andrew Benton wrote: > On 18/03/10 19:24, Scott Kopel wrote: >> So the question is what kernel configuration changes do I have to make to >> get the kernel to recognize my ide drives? I have old system with IDE drives and addon cards for sata dirves. The systems sees tht IDE drives as

Re: my kernel won't recognize ide drives

2010-03-18 Thread Andrew Benton
On 18/03/10 19:24, Scott Kopel wrote: > So the question is what kernel configuration changes do I have to make to get > the kernel to recognize my ide drives? It would help if we could see the output of lspci (from pciutils) http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/pciutils.html And

Re: my kernel won't recognize ide drives

2010-03-18 Thread Ken Moffat
On 18 March 2010 19:24, Scott Kopel wrote: > The system harddrive is a sata and it all works perfectly. My problem is that > I have a several pata (ide) drives that I'd like to add to the system. The > kernel doesn't recognize them. fdisk -l shows only sda and in /dev the only > harddrive list

Re: my kernel won't recognize ide drives

2010-03-18 Thread William Immendorf
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Scott Kopel wrote: > So the question is what kernel configuration changes do I have to make to get > the kernel to recognize my ide drives? I realize that new kernels name ide > drives sdx and that's fine. I don't need them to be labeled hdx. I simply > want the