[ltp] T23, Redhat 7.3 & ultrabay drive

[Thomas J. Valerio]

If there is an "hdc=ide-scsi" line in your lilo.conf file, comment it out.

       Thomas Valerio


Tim Abbott wrote:

> I have recently installed Redhat 7.3 on my T23, including an update to
> Kernel 2.4.18-17.7.x.  I want to use an ultrabay disk as the data disk
> on this system and retain as much as possible of the internal drive for
> WinXP.  However, Redhat refuses to recognise the removable disk.  It is
> recognised during the boot sequence as drive hdc, but does not appear
> in /etc/fstab, /etc/mtab or on '/sbin/sfdisk -l'.  dmesg does complain
> that it has no driver.
>
> dmesg gives:
>
>     ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1860-0x1867, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
>     ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1868-0x186f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
> hda: IC25T048ATDA05-0, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: IC25T060ATCS05-0, ATA DISK drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> blk: queue c0385f84, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
> blk: queue c0385f84, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
> hda: 93759120 sectors (48005 MB) w/1806KiB Cache, CHS=6201/240/63, UDMA(100)
> ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
> Partition check:
>  hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 >
>
> and no other reference to hdc except later on:
>
> ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
> hdc: driver not present
> ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
> hdc: driver not present
>
> Any ideas...?
>
> Cheers,
>
>         Tim
>
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