2.4.14-16: Can't see hdb or hdc on ABIT BP6

[Adam C Powell IV]

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Greetings,

First, please CC me in replies, as I'm not subscribed...

I have an ABIT BP6 dual-Celeron system, with six IDE drives, four on the 
PIIX4 controller and two on the HPT366.  For some reason, Debian 
kernel-image-2.4.14-686-smp and 2.4.16 can never see anything on hdb or 
hdc, but have no trouble at all with hda, hdd, hdf or hdg.  It's as if I 
removed those two drives.  The corresponding Debian 2.4.9 kernel package 
always works perfectly, as does 2.2.19 and various other 2.2 and 2.4 
kernels leading up to those.

I originally thought it was an ext2 problem because fsck couldn't mount 
hdb1 or hdc1, and that's where the boot process would stop.  The Debian 
slink install made hda1 (root) without sparse superblocks, and hdb1 
(/usr) and hdc1 (/var) with sparse superblocks, making that the 
suspect.  But then tune2fs wasn't finding the partitions either, and 
raidstart was finding hda3 and hdd1 but not hdb3 or hdc3 (which are 10 
GB each making up a 30 GB RAID5 array), and also could find hda2 but not 
hdb2 or hdc2 (for a RAID0 array).  It was finding hdf1 and hdg1 just 
fine for another RAID0 array.

So it's as if hdb and hdc are not there!

For more info on those drives, I've attached the relevant boot log 
portion from /var/log/messages under 2.4.9.  Since the missing drives 
are identical to hda, which works just fine, I'm mystified...

I would much appreciate any insights/solutions, and am happy to provide 
additional information toward that end.

Thanks,
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Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel: VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem).
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel: PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel: PIIX4: chipset revision 1
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel: PIIX4: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel:     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel:     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel: HPT366: onboard version of chipset, pin1=1 pin2=2
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel: HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 98
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel: PCI: Enabling device 00:13.0 (0005 -> 0007)
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel: HPT366: chipset revision 1
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel: HPT366: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel:     ide2: BM-DMA at 0xbc00-0xbc07, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:DMA
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel: HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 99
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel: HPT366: chipset revision 1
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel: HPT366: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel:     ide3: BM-DMA at 0xc800-0xc807, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:pio
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel: hda: Maxtor 91728D8, ATA DISK drive
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel: hdb: Maxtor 91728D8, ATA DISK drive
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel: hdc: Maxtor 91728D8, ATA DISK drive
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel: hdd: WDC WD102AA, ATA DISK drive
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel: hdf: QUANTUM FIREBALLP AS40, ATA DISK drive
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel: hdg: QUANTUM FIREBALLP AS40, ATA DISK drive
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel: ide2 at 0xb400-0xb407,0xb802 on irq 11
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel: ide3 at 0xc000-0xc007,0xc402 on irq 11
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel: hda: 33750864 sectors (17280 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=33483/16/63
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel: hdb: 33750864 sectors (17280 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=33483/16/63
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel: hdc: 33750864 sectors (17280 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=33483/16/63
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel: hdd: 20044080 sectors (10263 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=19885/16/63
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel: hdf: 78198750 sectors (40038 MB) w/1902KiB Cache, CHS=77578/16/63, UDMA(33)
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel: hdg: 78198750 sectors (40038 MB) w/1902KiB Cache, CHS=77578/16/63, UDMA(33)
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel: Partition check:
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel:  /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel:  /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 p2 p3
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel:  /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel:  /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0: p1
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel:  /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target1/lun0: p1
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel:  /dev/ide/host3/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Dec  7 12:39:24 lyre kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.

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