Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 18 Dec 1999 20:04:01 -0500 | From | Wakko Warner <> | Subject | Re: IDE and isapnp |
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> > rely on a DOS PnP driver to set everything up then use loadlin to boot > > Linux. I am also using the IDE port on the sb for my /usr, /home, and for > > my CDROM, which means I need the IDE driver to be able to find that IDE > > channel. I would love to be able to ditch the last remnant of M$ on this > > system. > > Interesting. We find the PNP part of the SB. The IDE on you'd need to add > support for, as I suspect nobody else uses such a setup. You could also use > the linux usermode pnp package to configure it and put that in before /usr > is mounted.
As soon as the device becomes available, does linux see it? I'm not sure, but I don't believe it does. Can you show a code fragment or such which will show how to have linux rescan for ide drives?
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