> > Hello- > > My home system has a CD attached to a SB Vibra 16 board, with 2 other drives > off the > single channel IDE controller. If I don't first boot into DOS or OS/2, the > CD is incorrectly recognized (hdg instead of hdc) and is inaccessable. > > Isapnp apparently comes up too late in the boot to help. I currently get > messages about resource conflicts when it tries to initialize (though things > work since the card's been warmed booted from another OS). I've checked the > settings and they match what I use in DOS and OS/2. > > How early can I get isapnp to initialize the card? Should I put the script > in rc.boot, or elsewhere? >
rc.boot is is obsolete. use rc.S (there is a doc in that dir). It should be safe, /etc is almost always mounted (remember that isapnp depends on the conf in /etc so make sure /etc/ exists before you use it. > Under OS/2 I need a special little (3rd party) driver to specifically > initialize the IDE > port ... does anyone know whether this is also a problem under Linux which > isapnp > doesnt address on a cold boot? > "odd" hardware like this is touchy at best. You may be stuck warm booting.
