ok i looked in dmesg and this is what I see I will separate the line that I
question
Linux version 2.2.11-2mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95
19990728 (release)) #1 Thu Aug 12 17:42:02 CEST 1999
Detected 267275463 Hz processor.
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ide_setup: ide2=01E8h,11 -- BAD OPTION
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ide_setup: hde=ide-scsi Why does this load if above line did not
work - since there is no hde
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Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 266.24 BogoMIPS
Memory: 79264k/81920k available (1064k kernel code, 420k reserved, 1108k
data, 64k init)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: Intel Pentium II (Klamath) stepping 03
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.35 (19990512) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb340
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.10)
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
PCSP 1.3 measurement: maximal samplerate 108470 Hz, 18356 Hz used
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.20
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: Maxtor 83500 A8, ATA DISK drive
hdb: Maxtor 90680D4, ATA DISK drive
hdc: WDC AC310200R, ATA DISK drive
hdd: ASUS CD-S400/A, ATAPI CDROM drive
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ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe this must be the
whole problem - what address should I try.
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ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: Maxtor 83500 A8, 3347MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=6801/16/63, DMA
hdb: Maxtor 90680D4, 6485MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=13176/16/63, UDMA(33)
hdc: WDC AC310200R, 9787MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=19885/16/63, UDMA(33)
hdd: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.55
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
pII_mmx : 604.647 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 633.984 MB/sec
8regs : 480.822 MB/sec
32regs : 259.080 MB/sec
using fastest function: p5_mmx (633.984 MB/sec)
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
Partition check:
hda: [PTBL] [850/128/63] hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
hdb: [PTBL] [826/255/63] hdb1
hdc: hdc1
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed
Adding Swap: 133016k swap-space (priority -1)
Timothy Litwiller wrote:
> thanks all, I will try these this morning and see how it goes.
>
> Ron Stodden wrote:
>
> > Timothy Litwiller wrote:
> >
> > > can I have two appends?
> >
> > Yes, but must be:
> >
> > append="ide2=0xXXX,XX hde=ide-scsi"
> >
> > For kernel 2.2.12 and possibly some earlier, you no longer need the
> > hde=ide-scsi. However this autodetection may only apply to ide0 and
> > ide1. Add the following to the end of your /etc/rc.local:
> >
> > modprobe ide-cd
> > modprobe sr_mod
> > modprobe cdrom
> > modprobe sg
> > modprobe isofs
> >
> > This will give you a reader. To get a writer dynamically at run time
> > rmmod ide-cd and then insmod ide-scsi, v-v to restore as a reader. If
> > you are using xcdroast to copy a CD you don't even have to do any of
> > this since the image file is built through a physical read using dd.
> >
> > You may need to update your kernel to get this nice functionality.
> >
> > --
> > Ron Stodden
> > Using Virtual Access
