I'm trying to write a driver that uses a machine's seccond IDE controller card to test IDE drives (as opposed to trying to create a mountable FS). The problem is that I need to get the regular IDE controller to leave the io ports etc. of that seccond controller alone. I tried the folowing kernel cmdline with no success: ro root=/dev/hda2 hde=noprobe ide2=noprobe ide3=noprobe I still get the folowing in my /proc/ioports ... ac00-ac07 : Promise Technology, Inc. 20267 b000-b003 : Promise Technology, Inc. 20267 b400-b407 : Promise Technology, Inc. 20267 b800-b803 : Promise Technology, Inc. 20267 bc00-bc3f : Promise Technology, Inc. 20267 bc00-bc07 : ide2 bc08-bc0f : ide3 bc10-bc3f : PDC20267 ... At this point, I'm out of ideas other than to find a scsi disk and disable IDE completely, which is not a real solution. I've attached my dmesg output in case it will prove usefull. Thanks in advance, Wayne Vinson PS - I'm not on the list, please CC me in your response. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
