Ok BIOS gets hda/hdb and IDE driver probes everything after that.
Is there any reason you cant just probe hda/hdb too? What breaks?
> > So what do you do with old AWARD bios without AUTO
> Can you not get an upgrade?
Its BIOS from pre-flash-rom days. No way to upgrade.
> You may need to use the offboard option in conjunction to calling
> pci=reverse to force the onboard hwif's to be scanned last.
Ahh more command line switches B)
Well i just overrode it with 'append hdc=19650,16,63' but im thinking of
the case where a novice is trying to install redhat 5.2 on his shiny new
22gb ide drive and cant understand why it doesnt see more than 8gb.
-Dan
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