Re: [PATCH] pdc20265 problem.

Petr Vandrovec (VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz)
Tue, 6 Aug 2002 12:28:42 +0200


On 5 Aug 02 at 23:48, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>
> > And second problem is that 20265 is used as primary onboard
> > sometimes and sometimes as offboard (another config option?).
>
> Can that not be configured at boot time with ide0=xxx or similar? I'm
> clearly missing why it would matter on or off board as long as the
> controller(s) were checked in the right order.

Make me favor, and extend ide0=<port> to also allow
ide0=pci<slotnumber>.primary or .secondary... Until then
I do not know port address in advance (my board also uses
20265 as secondary ATA host, and I was really surprised what happened
to my /dev/hde after upgrade).
Petr Vandrovec
vandrove@vc.cvut.cz

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