Re: WDC HD found, but ignored?

[Nicholas Berry]

>>> Tobias Diedrich <[e-mail]> 06/23/03 07:14PM >>>
> This is a really weird case.
> The kernel (2.4.21-ac2) finds the hard disk (WDC WD1800JB-00DUA0),
but
> does not attach the ide-disk driver (No error message). The
following
> partition check fails with I/O error on sector 0. Attempts to access
the
> disk (In this case hdc) on the booted system result in the kernel
trying
> to load the ide-disk module, which fails because it is compiled in.
> The works fine in this configuration when booting the W2K partition.

> I hope someone has an idea on what is going wrong here.
> Please CC me on replies as I am not subscribed to the list at the
> moment.
> Kernel boot log:

> Linux version 2.4.21-ac2 (root@elektra) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002
(Debian prerelease)) #5 Sun Dec 1 18:56:36 CET 2002
> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fffc000 (usable)
> BIOS-e820: 000000003fffc000 - 000000003ffff000 (ACPI data)
> BIOS-e820: 000000003ffff000 - 0000000040000000 (ACPI NVS)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
> Warning only 896MB will be used.
> Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel.
> 896MB LOWMEM available.
> On node 0 totalpages: 229376
> zone(0): 4096 pages.
> zone(1): 225280 pages.
> zone(2): 0 pages.
> Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 vga=ext parport=auto
hdc=ide-scsi

hdc=ide-scsi? Do you really want this?

Nik