On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 12:26:29AM +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > Hello. > > Linas Vepstas wrote: > >I've got a rather old x86 box that I'm booting 2.6.21.1 on; > >this kernel is not finding an ide controller on it. > > >The motherboard has 4 ide controllers total; two olde-fashioned > >ones (PIIX4, using the original 40-pin IDE ribbon cable) and two > > You should have said "channels". PIIX4 has only one IDE controller. Right. I wrote "drive" in the first email, and then quickly changed that :-) > Actually, it was a bug that I've introduced into > drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.c -- the patch has been already merged into > 2.6.22-rc1: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fdb0d72be4decaade6cedb5012ddd679a4817b5f OK, great, thanks! I'll give this a spin. If it works, I'll suggest backporting it to the stable branch 2.6.21.2. --linas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
