On Llu, 2006-01-23 at 11:10 +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: > Actually... could a configure option in Kconfig be added to disable > probing particular IDE busses? ide0=noprobe > > VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci0000:00:04.1 > > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb800-0xb807, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio > > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb808-0xb80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio > > Probing IDE interface ide0... > > hda: IRQ probe failed (0xfff0f5fc) This is probing beause the IDE enable bits have not been set correctly by the BIOS I think. Not much we can do if the BIOS says "yes there is a drive" and there is not.
