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SubjectRe: Problems detecting CDROM on a Dell laptop
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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