Ide drive /yes/not recognized

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 02:17:01PM -0400, Jose wrote:
> Just an update on this one, I got to download a newer kernel from 
> kernel.org, and after playing around, got it to compile, booted up and 
> got my IDE drives back, problem is that now with this kernel, the 
> software I wanted to try (free version from Veritas for linux, sends a 
> message during install and quits) won't run on any non 2.6.9 or lower, I 
> tried cheating with recompiling the new kernel  and changing the version 
> from the Makefile to 2.6.9, compiled, booted up, and got it to install 
> Veritas to an extent, but main daemon vxconfigd, sends a message saying 
> it couldn't install due to some package dependency, I boot up with the 
> older kernel and installed fine, does anybody knows what patches would 
> be necessary to get the old kernel 2.6.9-42 to recognize IDE drives 
> conected to EIDE prots on an asus P5LD2 motherboard?

If you managed to get it to recognize, it would be in PIO mode at about
2MB/s transfer rate and practically unusuable.

Is the software really worth that hassle?  It can't be actively
maintained if it won't run on a kernel higher than 2.6.9 after all.

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Len Sorensen
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