Messages in this thread |  | | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: Fw: max number of ide controllers? | Date | Fri, 22 Dec 2000 13:32:00 -0700 (MST) |
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Charles Wilkins writes: > Andrzej M. Krzysztofowicz says, > > >"Linux supports up to 10 IDE channels, however channel numbers of PCI > controllers seem to be assigned first." > > Warren Young says, > >"Kernel 2.2 is limited to 4 IDE controllers." > > ok, so which is it kernel guys, 4 or 10 IDE controllers for the 2.2.x > kernel?
It depends if you have Andre's IDE patches applied to your kernel sources or not.
> well, i know this SB32 card can operating on at least 3 different io ports . > . .
It may be that there is some difficulty in the order the IDE cards are initialized. From your previous dmesg output, it appears that ide3 and ide4 (PCI cards) are initialized before ide2 (ISA card), so they may be stealing an ioport that the ISA card needs. Try booting with just the SB32 card and checking /proc/ioports, and then with only the other card, and see if anything in /proc/ioports (or /proc/interrupts) is conflicting.
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