IBM 850 LinuxPPC installation?

Michel Lanners mlan at cpu.lu
Sun Aug 29 15:58:25 EST 1999


On  28 Aug, this message from Hollis R Blanchard echoed through cyberspace:
>> Also, you might want to try patching your kernel with Andre Hedrick's
>> multi-platform uniform IDE driver (look at
>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/). You _might_
>> need additional patches to get it to boot; if so, get back to me, and
>> I'll produce a diff against my working kernel.
> 
> I don't know if you read my most recent info, but after disconnecting the
> cdrom drive (hdc), I'm getting lots of 
> hda: lost interrupt
> 
> My dmesg otherwise looks the same - just drop every mention of hdc. If you
> think that uniform IDE driver would help with my current problem let me know
> and I'll give it a shot.

Definitely give it a try. Do you know what hardwre is your IDE
interface? Is it integrated into some chipset? If so, which one?

Michel

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