PCI IDE Adapter for PPC/Linux

Tom Rini trini at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Aug 14 01:15:21 EST 2001


On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 12:20:28AM -0700, James F Dougherty wrote:
>
> (LOL) .... I have the Promise Ultra-66..... since it's
> not working, this is what prompted me to look for an
> alternative ..
>
> I have ported MontaVista HHL (Linux 2.4.2) to
> a custom processor board, and have been
> trying to run fdisk to setup a mountable root
> drive.

Have you tried the card in another PPC?  Are you seeing any other
PCI related issues on your custom board?

> mousse-(17):[11:31pm]: [/>devfsd /dev
> Started device management daemon for /dev
> mousse-(18):[11:31pm]: [/>fdisk /dev/hda
> modprobe: Can't locate module /dev/hda
> modprobe: Can't locate module /dev/hda

That's odd.  Do you have /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/anything?
I _think_ you shouldn't see a modprobe error if the ide-disk driver is
installed already, I think.  But I'm not sure.

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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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