Ide drive /yes/not recognized

[Jose]

Jose wrote:
> Evan Leibovitch wrote:
>> Jose wrote:
>>  
>>> Hi All
>>>
>>> I have this new machine that comes with dual core, it has 3 ide
>>> connector, one it's the default, already connected to a DVDrom (hdb),
>>> and one IDE master drive (hda), where I installed a dual boot with
>>> Suse 10.2 and Centos 4.4, I have installed another IDE (hdf SUse)aside
>>> of another SATA (sda) drive on this machine, Suse recognizes the 3
>>> drives + dvd, Centos only recognizes the primary master IDE, DVD, and
>>> SATA drive, but does not recognizes the second IDE, I  have no idea
>>> why it would happen on the Centos side, I connected a usb drive while
>>> on Centos and it recognized it within seconds.
>>>     
>> Hi Jose,
>>
>> Newer dual-core motherboards, notably from Intel, use new IDE
>> controllers that older Linux kernels don't support. This may explain why
>> your SuSE recognized the drive but Centos did not; I have little
>> experiences with recent releases of either. You may find that the Centos
>> "support" for your IDE drives is limited to booting (because of the
>> BIOS) and is not supported in regular operation any more than the IDE
>> hard drive.
>>
>> There is a driver/patch that supports the new systems with Marvell IDE
>> controllers:
>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/16/157
>>
>> This will provide a kernel module 'pata_marvell' which, when loaded,
>> will recognize the hard drives and other 'conventional' IDE devices
>> (which are now know as Parallel ATA or PATA).
>>
>> What I did was to:
>> 1) Boot and install Linux off an external USB-connected  CD-ROM drive
>> 2) Go to the net, download the PATA driver
>> 3) Compile, install and load the module
>> 4) Add it to /etc/modules so that it would be found and loaded
>> automatically on subsequent reboots
>>
>> Or you could just use a distribution/version with a newer kernel that
>> already has the support (as your SuSE apparently does).
>>
>> I hope this helps. As always, YMMV, standard disclaimers apply.
>>
>> - Evan
>>
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> Hi Evan,
>
> Thanks for your suggestion, that made me check something on the 
> motherboard manual.
>
> Looking at the motherboard manual, says that I have to apply a driver 
> for IDE drives from the CDROM it came with it, I guess the guy at the 
> shop didn't install it, I would have to install tonight as the machine 
> is at another location, last night I noticed there is an update for 
> the Centos kernel from their repositories, I would check if this 
> version has the support I need for my machine configuration.
>
> Jose
>
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Hi Evan

I tried playing with the motherboard settings, but nothing, same 
results, I am not that familiar with compiling modules or kernels, I 
would have to dig out the instructions how to do that.

Jose
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