On Friday 19 October 2007 22:07:43 Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 10:03:09PM +0100, Nick Warne wrote: > > No change: > > > > ide_setup: hdd=ide-cd > > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA > > hdd: TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S202J, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > > hdd: drive side 80-wire cable detection failed, limiting max speed to > > UDMA33 hdd: selected mode 0x42 > > hdd: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) > > Did you try another cable? DId you try using both the old IDE drivers > and the new PATA libata drivers? What is the hdd=ide-cd supposed to > do? Do you have a device present as hdc and if not, then why not? > (Hint: ATA spec requires a master before you can have a slave, even > though it frequently does work with just a slave. Of course cable > select seems even nicer since then the device at the end of an 80 wire > cable is automatically master, and any additional device added to the > middle connector on the cable becomes slave, and you should not connect > a device to the middle connector without one on the end). > > Also make sure the right end of the cable is connected to the mainboard, > just in case that matters. I have (since 2.6.15 at least) hda, hdb, hdc, and hdd. hda and hdb are mounted at boot. hdc is not mounted, as I leave that drive for backups and mount as needed. All I done was replace a duff cd/dvd drive (hdd) with a new one. Nick -- Free Software Foundation Associate Member 5508 - 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