PCI IDE Adapter for PPC/Linux

Tom Rini trini at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Aug 14 06:50:20 EST 2001


On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 01:07:50PM -0700, James F Dougherty wrote:

> What else should I look at? Also, assuming this is a brand new
> drive (without any partitions on it), should I boot the disk under
> DOS and run fdisk to set up an initial MBR?

Linux can do it fine.  The problem is linux isn't seeing the drive
because the controller isn't working.

> Also, how come it is not running in Native mode? Does anyone know what
> the changes are to the pdc driver to enable this?

iirc, that means the BIOS didn't set it up, thats all.

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