Re: SB PnP IDE driver

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:45:59 -0400

Antonio Miguel Ferreira Marques Trindade <trindade@student.dei.uc.pt> said:
> Now that the kernel has ISA PnP support, is it going to be possible to
> use the IDE port on this card? I am desperatly needing one more IDE port
> so in addition to my already filled 4. I tried over and over to put the
> IDE driver in a module and boot the system through the initrd method but
> without success and I REALLY NEED that IDE port working?

My ISA (non PnP) SB16 IDE port worked fine out of the box as IDE2, i.e.,
third IDE (some jumper tweaking was perhaps required). WinNT won't have
anything to do with it, though. This was way back, probably RedHat 4.2 or
some such.

Look over what pnpdump et al tell you.

Good luck!

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Horst von Brand                             vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl
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