FastTrack 133 "Lite" or why there is no /dev/hda

[Chadley Wilson]

On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 18:30, Martin Mewes wrote:
> Hi Alan,
> 
> Am Sonntag, 21. März 2004 16:51 schrieb Alan Cox:
> > On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 03:46:53PM +0100, Martin Mewes wrote:
> > > In this scenario: Is it possible to quicken the boot-process so
> > > that checking for hd/a-d is skipped?
> >
> > They should only be checked if the BIOS indicates they are present.
> > If you are getting long pauses you might want to report a bug to
> > the 2.6 kernel IDE maintainer
> 
> They are not present in the BIOS because the IDE-Drives are handled by 
> the IDE-Raid-Hardware. Looks like something to work on.
> 
IIRC 
I had four serial ATA drives in a system last week that was running on
the promise controller these drives weren't detected in the bios but but
by the controller, I had to make a driver disk for the first
installation and then I couldn't find the device on /dev/hd- after some
playing they were actually on /dev/sda b c and d.

Could be the same for the fasttrack, I don't know.


Chadley Wilson

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