>> Jaakko Niemi writes: >> > >> > >> All was good until I changed motherboards. All of a sudden now, the >> > >> secondary >> > >> IDE bus does not properly detect the cdrom drive. The screen shows the >> > >> IDE >> > >> primary bus as being probed, but no secondary bus. I use LILO to boot. >> > >> How can >> > >> I get the kernel (2.0.32) to properly probe/detect the secondary IDE >> > >> bus? >> > >> > Does the BIOS find your CD ? >> > >> >> Yes, The BIOS does properly identify the CDrom Drive. Funny thing , now that >> I >> think about it, is that Win95 could not see the secondary IDE bus or the >> CDROM >> drive until I loaded a driver under Win95 (supplied by the MB manufacturer). >> Perhaps the registers for the secondary IDE bus are sufficiently different >> from the "norm" that a special driver is needed.
That's a reeaally old 95 'buglet' that it did not recognize the secondary IDE channel on Intel chipsets and at worst disabled it entarily. If you do a cat /proc/interrupts , do you see int. 15 allocated to ide1 there? --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null