On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Ryan Bedwell wrote:
> I've got a 20MB Sandisk, and Linux (Red Hat 5.1) is not recognizing it at
> boot up. I've got the flash disk set as slave and a regular hard drive as
> master. BIOS sees/autodetects them both fine. Dos sees both drives, but
> even if I specify kernel parameters (hdb=640,2,32), I still get a "Unable
> to open /dev/hdb" when I try to fdisk it. In the boot-up messages, there
> is nothing about /dev/hdb.
>
> Any experience with this or ideas where I need to look?
This problem is quite frequently reported. Put it on hdc or recompile kernel
with "Old hard disk (MFM/RLL/IDE) driver" - I am not sure whether this will
work. Another option could be "Use old disk-only driver on primary interface"
I would be interested whether this will work.
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Tomasz Motylewski
