Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Feb 2000 23:40:41 +0100 (CET) | From | Francesco Chemolli <> | Subject | Re: Problems detecting CDROM on a Dell laptop |
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On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Kjartan Maraas wrote:
> Surprisingly this didn't work and suddenly I remembered > that I had also done a firmware upgrade. :) > > This is probably not that easy to downgrade.
Hm.. I think I've seen downgrade-type versions for all of Dell's upgrades on Dell's Support site.
> > Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30 > > PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 > > PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > > ide0: BM-DMA at 0x0860-0x0867, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio > > ide1: BM-DMA at 0x0868-0x086f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio > > hda: IBM-DADA-26480, ATA DISK drive > > ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe > > Why does it report itself as ide2: ? Wouldn't ide1 be more > logical since this is a laptop with just a HD and a CDROM?
Dell's laptops use both IDE channels apparently. Mine does.
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