On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 13:26 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > Don't know, maybe you can try to build a custom kernel with > CONFIG_PATA_SERVERWORKS (it is disabled in the Debian kernel) which > seems to be the PATA driver for your IDE controller.
Yes that did the job; thanks for the tip. Instructions at http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html were invaluable. I also had to select the sata_mv module to get the SATA drives on the PCI-X card to appear (lspci showed Marvell controller). With the former hda moving to sda, they moved up from sda & sdb under 2.6.18 to sdb & sdc. This was my first ever kernel compile in 9 years of linuxing (mostly Debian). Previously stock kernels have always supported anything I've put them on (and that includes a phase of installing linux on all sorts of junk HW pulled out of people's trash/discarded by IT depts). Have I just been lucky in the past, or is the policy on which drivers get built into stock kernels changing (or just unable to keep up with an ever increasing number of drivers) and I can expect to need to do this more in future ? Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
