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On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Kenneth Stephen wrote:

> Michael,
> 
>       I've had to deal with a similar problem - the kernel detecting ide
> drives on the wrong interface or not detecting the drive at all. This
> problem turned out to be my machines non-standard hardware. The ide
> autodetect code assumes the ide interfaces to be present at certain I/O
> addresses, and using certain IRQ's. If (as was the case with my machine)
> your machine uses different IO addresses or IRQ's, the autodetection will
> fail. 
> 

Everything's all set properly.... the only thing that I can think of is
that because the BIOS doesn't support it, it can't be probed somehow.
This is an older motherboard system.. P133.  I wonder.

Is that possible, any wise old Linux people out there?  I don't personally
think it possible, but then again, I could always be wrong.

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Customer: I'm running Windows '98 Tech: Yes. Customer:  My computer isn't
working now.  Tech:  Yes, you said that.

10:52pm up 1:29, 3 users, load average: 0.24, 0.20, 0.15

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