Re: New IDE codes in 2.5.64-ac3

[Alan Cox]

On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 02:16, Osamu Tomita wrote:
> My PC98 box doesn't boot 2.5.64-ac3.
> After print "ide-default: hdd: Failed to register the driver with ide.c"
> forced to panic.
> "hdd" is not connected my box.
> IMHO We need status meaning 'supported by the driver but drive not present'.
> Or this problem is PC98 specific?

Every device registered should now have a driver in all situations. The 
panic sounds like the pc98 ide might be using ata_attach() directly or
indirectly on a non existant disk. That would upset things