Re: SB PnP IDE driver

Wakko Warner (wakko@animx.eu.org)
Fri, 17 Sep 1999 07:21:41 -0400

> > 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.

I have an sb16 with that dreaded ide port <g> Anyway, I've used it to copy
hard drives in the past (I had 3 ide hdds and a cdrom at that time). It
wasn't pnp either, but I have another machine with a pnp sb16. The only
catch I've found is that you probably need a bios that supports pnp (this
machine doesn't have isapnptools installed and the pnp sound card is setup
by the bios and works). I tried it with a hard drive on the sb card and it
found it upon bootup.

Maybe all you'd really need is a machine with a pnp bios?

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