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<DIV>Report it to Intel since it's an communication issue between the BIOS and
the device and then cc Sony or the makers of the tape device. Report it to the
kernel team only after the response from the other two. You may need to
send the kernel team the information you get from Intel and Sony or whoever the
device is made by.</DIV>
<DIV>Just be prepared to wait awhile for responses.</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
Networks Pty Ltd<BR><A
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<DIV>"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure<BR> is trying
to please everybody." -Bill Cosby</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR>>>> onno@itmaze.com.au 8:53:11 PM 29/09/2003
>>><BR>On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 18:02, Jon Miller wrote:<BR>>
Interesting, I say this because I've seen some BIOS that have what you<BR>>
saw Matt and in another location it shows you more settings. Also
on<BR>> the ver first option you can set if the IDE connectors are Auto,
None,<BR>> LBA, etc. So there were no other settings for the IDE
connectors? <BR>> What BIOS and version was this? also was the BIOS updated
to the most<BR>> recent version? Reason I ask is I've seen this before
on a system who<BR>> had the settings nicely tucked away.<BR><BR>The front
settings were likely set to Auto, but I've looked through that<BR>BIOS several
times myself, had others look and Matt looked, nothing<BR>else.<BR><BR>Initially
the version was p04-0009, Matt updated that to the latest with<BR>no
difference.<BR><BR>The problem was that the channel was working with one drive
on ide0 and<BR>one cdrom on ide1. We installed a second drive on ide0 and
replaced the<BR>cdrom with a tape drive and the secondary channel vanished -
although<BR>the BIOS saw all three devices. As stated earlier, all permutations
of<BR>drives and channels were tested and the only working version was
one<BR>drive on ide0, and the tape and other drive on ide1.<BR><BR>Back to my
original question, do I tell the Kernel team so they can<BR>work-around it, or
how do I tell Intel that their BIOS is broken - as<BR>both Matt and I
suspect.<BR><BR>Cheers,<BR><BR>Onno Benschop <BR><BR>Connected via Optus B3 at
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