On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 12:59:07PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > I just got PCI IDE controller and have troubles making it work with > linux (2.4.18). > > the docs in linux/Documentation/ide.txt say that linux will probe for > ide devices that have device files in /dev or that I can force it to > probe using ide2=0x1e8,0x3ee,11 (kernel option). So I thought it should > almost work by itself but it doesn't. Here's what I did: > > in /etc/lilo.conf, I tried these (and some other) variations: > > append = "ide2=0x1e8,0x3ee,11 ide3=0x168,0x36e,11 hdg=cdrom" > append = "ide2=0x1e8,0x3ee,11 ide3=0x168,0x36e" > append = "ide2=0x1e8,0x3ee ide3=0x168,0x36e"
Just some guessing: From below it looks like hardware probing is finding something. Maybe try mounting devfs on /dev and then use devfs naming conventions to access the new ide devices rather than specifying ports in append. [snip] > > When I connect everything to PCI controller and disable the ide on > motherboard the computer starts booting, the disks show just like they > should (hda, hdb for HD, hdc for cdrom), the lilo boots kernel but for > some reason kernel doesn't want to mount root file system, it's excuse > being that root device 304 was not found... what does that mean? I This is saying it can't find the root device on ide0. If you switch your hardware from ide0 to new PCI controller, I thing you will need to reconfigure lilo to boot from that device or at least rerun lilo. > thought that as long as it's on the same ide (ide0) and same position > (master) it shoudl work. > > another confusing thing is that the pci ide controller is listed as > follows in lspci: > > 00:09.0 SCSI storage controller: Artop Electronic Corp: Unknown device > 0009 (rev 02) You may need ide-scsi to use devices on new IDE controller. What happens if you load modules scsi_mod sd_mod sr_mod st sg ide-scsi? > > what could that mean? > > the motherboard is using VIA chipset, here's the full output of lspci: > > jojda:/home/erik# lspci > 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo > PRO133x] (rev c4) > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo > MVP3/Pro133x AGP] > 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] > (rev 40) > 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06) > 00:07.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] > (rev 40) > 00:09.0 SCSI storage controller: Artop Electronic Corp: Unknown device > 0009 (rev 02) > 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet (rev 10) > 00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 > (rev 10) > 00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3 (rev > 01) > > any ideas on how to make it work? TIA! > > erik -- Jerome
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