Re: Cool Road Runner

Andreas Dilger (adilger@turbolinux.com)
Fri, 30 Mar 2001 10:52:48 -0700 (MST)

Steffen Gruenwald writes:
> The CompactFlash disk (a 32 MB SanDisk) is recognized as /dev/hda,
> but the system fails to see the /dev/hdb disk (an IBM DARA-206000
> jumpered as slave). When the IDE driver loads, it displays
> hda:pio, hdb:DMA - and yes, the BIOS assigns UDMA33 to the slave drive
> while the master is detected as Mode1.
> The IDE controller is a CS5530.

This was just discussed this week by Andre Hedrick. You need to add a
mount option like "hdb=flash" (I wasn't paying much attention). This
is because CF disks do not properly handle detection of slaves. See:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=98580536318380&w=4

Cheers, Andreas

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