Re: Missing IDE Devices in 2.6.2

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Date: Wed Feb 04 2004 - 15:25:39 EST


On Wednesday 04 of February 2004 21:01, Torin Ford wrote:
> I hate to ask such a stupid question, but has something "major" changed in
> the IDE code between 2.6.1 and 2.6.2 that would cause it not to probe for
> devices? I've got 2.6.1 running great. This morning when I used my 2.6.1
> config file for 2.6.2 (doing a make oldconfig), everything compiles great.
> Unfortunately when I boot 2.6.2, it doesn't find any IDE devices. With
> 2.6.1, the IDE code would probe and find my ZIP disk, and 2 CDROMs, now
> with 2.6.2 I get nothing. Loading ide-cd and/or id-floppy don't do
> anything either. Enclosed is my config file. I've also tried adding and
> removing different boot params such as:

Major change is that you can compile generic host driver as module now.

>From your .config:

CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX=m

Is this intentional?
Maybe you forgot to load 'piix' module?

--bart

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