Re: IDE and isapnp
Wakko Warner (wakko@animx.eu.org)
Sat, 18 Dec 1999 20:04:01 -0500
> > rely on a DOS PnP driver to set everything up then use loadlin to boot
> > Linux. I am also using the IDE port on the sb for my /usr, /home, and for
> > my CDROM, which means I need the IDE driver to be able to find that IDE
> > channel. I would love to be able to ditch the last remnant of M$ on this
> > system.
>
> Interesting. We find the PNP part of the SB. The IDE on you'd need to add
> support for, as I suspect nobody else uses such a setup. You could also use
> the linux usermode pnp package to configure it and put that in before /usr
> is mounted.
As soon as the device becomes available, does linux see it? I'm not sure,
but I don't believe it does. Can you show a code fragment or such which
will show how to have linux rescan for ide drives?
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