If you still need EIDE devices enabled (maybe you have cdrom reader etc)
you can add
append="hda=noprobe"
to lilo.conf



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arthur Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 11 September 2002 03:20
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Linux looks for hda, hdb etc when there are none ...
> 
> 
> Hi all.
> One of my boxes uses SCSI. On the ASUS m/b I toggled EIDE h/d 
> off.  This is fine for the BIOS on booting up, it fines the 
> Adaptec and proceeds happily. 
> However when RH7.1 loads, it starts looking for hda, hdb etc 
> when in fact they are sda, sdb etc and RH7.1 throws these 
> error messages : hda : IRQ probe failed (...) hda : IRQ probe 
> failed (...) hda : noresponse, resetting drive hdb : IRQ 
> probe failed (...) and so on ... then continues loading 
> successfully. It is *annoying*, can someone tell me how to 
> get rid of these spurious error messages ?
> 



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