Hi there, I rejoin the list after 5-6 years. Was able to fix most of the things myself but this one has me totally bowled over.
I have an IDE disk enclosure (can house 2 disks per IDE channel, a total of 4 currently plugged in) which makes IDE disks available to the main computer via 2x USB 2.0 connection (One USB 2.0 port connected to IDE adapter). The problem I have is that the computer is able to see only 1 IDE disk per channel. At a time, as a result, my server can only see 2 disks instead of 4 connected, one disk per channel only. I have tried all possible combinations of jumpers (master/slave, cable-select, force-slave-present) for each pair. Interestingly - Windows XP / YetAnotherReiserFS GUI is able to see/read all 4 (2 pairs) disks so I think it is something that needs fixing in Linux kernel/drivers and the enclosure box is not the source of problem. I confirm individual disks are fine as well. I am currently running Linux 2.6.27-gentoo-r8. Has anyone else encountered this problem before ? /proc/config.gz is also attached. Thanks in advance, Rohit
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