Re: Ideas for v2.1
Jon Tombs (jon@gte.esi.us.es)
Tue, 11 Jun 1996 12:58:49 +0100 (BST)
Mikael Abrahamsson said:
>
> On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Aaron Tiensivu wrote:
>
> > o Modularization of ide.c and ide-cd.c
>
> Fixing the ide-code so that it doesnt spew errormessages and other
> weirdness when you just have /dev/hda and /dev/hdc (two master disks) and
> it takes for granted that if you have two ide disks, they should be
> /dev/hda and /dev/hdb. I think this is in the partition check part. I
> changed back to having them on the same bus just to get rid of the
> cosmetical error. It still worked with hda and hdc.
This sounds like you didn't have your disks jumpered correctly. I have
just hda and hdc in two machines, and with triton MBs it is quite a common
thing to do. Never seen any errors.
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Jon. <jon@gte.esi.us.es, http://www.esi.us.es/~jon>