Richard Smith wrote:
Edward J. Lee wrote:
Hi guys, I'm new on the list.
Welcome to linuxBIOS.
I'm using my own mainboard and I'm having problems with IDE HDD probing. the function ide_init() seems to return 0 *even* there are no HDDs attached on the system.
Anyone know what to do?
Well when I had issues with the native LinuxBIOS IDE code not detecting the CHS properly with my CF the response I received was to use the ide driver of Etherboot. So I got Etherboot 5.1.8 and that fixed my issues.
I would say try etherboot and see if that works then when you know your hardware is correctly configured and working you can do some compare/contrast with etherboot and see whats wrong with LB IDE.
The important issue was that linuxBIOS 'thinks' to have detected an IDE device even when I didn't attach any. (of course, the disk info gets read awfully). When an IDE HDD exists, everything goes just fine for me. (ide_init() works great) I had to fix this problem by reading in a 'magic number' from the partition table to check if an HDD really exists.
Thx, anywayz
Ed.