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<DIV>Excuse me for not seeing the beginning of this thread, but I wanted to know
is when you go into the BIOS is the ide channel disabled, auto or another
setting? What is the channel set to initially?</DIV>
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<DIV>Jon</DIV>
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<DIV>Jon L. Miller, MCNE, CNS, ASE<BR>Director/Sr Systems Consultant<BR>MMT
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<DIV><BR><BR>>>> zombie@penguincare.com.au 2:44:21 PM 29/09/2003
>>><BR>On 28 Sep 2003, quoth Onno Benschop:<BR><BR>> Two HDD on IDE0
one Tape on IDE1 as Master - second channel is not<BR>> recognised by Linux
anymore, even though the BIOS shows all three<BR>> devices.<BR>><BR>>
Now that it works, who needs to know this problem? Is it a BIOS issue,<BR>>
is it a Kernel issue - who do I tell?<BR><BR>I'm convinced it's a BIOS issue,
since the error message with only the<BR>tape drive plugged in (or nothing at
all plugged in) resulted in the<BR>kernel message "neither IDE port enabled
(BIOS)"<BR><BR>Having the tape drive plugged into the 1st channel and the HDDs
into the<BR>2nd resulted in Linux only seeing ide1 not ide0<BR><BR>The BIOS
should not be disabling the IDE channel just because (it thinks)<BR>there is
nothing plugged into it. If the channel wasn't disabled Linux<BR>would
have had no trouble finding the tape drive, even if the BIOS<BR>couldn't see
it.<BR><BR>Stranger still the BIOS saw the tape drive fine, yet it still saw fit
to<BR>report the channel as disabled to Linux.<BR><BR>-
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