Ide drive /yes/not recognized

[Jose]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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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Hi Len,

It's more about learning the software that I really need to do, I was 
also surprise it won't run on anything higher than 2.6.9.

I guess my last try would be to create a vmware instance and add virtual 
drives to it.

Jose



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