hda/hdb not found ... resetting drive

[kowalsky]

Hi all,
I use to have Mandrake 7.1 installed with 2 IDE HDs but I decided to use the ATA100 capabilities of Asus A7V and I switched to RH 7.2 - since I installed RH 7.2 that has support for ATA100 it always looks for IDE drives and lingers a few minutes just to declare eventually it didn't find any and "resetting the drive"... Is there anything I can do to tell Linux not to look for hda and hdb anymore?
Thanks,
kowalsky

[DMR]

AS far as I know, Linux will just do that; I don't think you can turn it off. On my Mandrake system it always tells me that hdd is missing, since I have no drive installed there.

I could definitely be wrong; if anyone knows a solution please post it.

[ 04 December 2001: Message edited by: DMR ]

[bdl]

From what I can gather from your post, you put your HDDs on /dev/hde ~ /dev/hdh, correct? I've never seen a linux install try to 'reset the drive' before, but I suppose you could compile a custom kernel adding support specifically for the ATA100 controller, it may avoid this problem by bypassing the regular IDE channels and boot the ATA100 drive. Although not the best solution if you still have a CDROM or something on the primary IDE controllers, you can disable them in the BIOS. Just a couple of ideas...

[Linuxcool]

You might be able to get it to stop probing for those drives by putting this in your /etc/lilo.conf or /boot/grub/menu.lst files.

If you're using lilo to boot, then add this to an append line in your /etc/lilo.conf file :

hda=none hdb=none

Then rerun /sbin/lilo after adding that.

If you're using grub add that to the kernel line.

DMR, you can try hdd=none.

[DMR]

Thanks Linuxcool,

I guess I would have known that if I'd RTFM, eh?

:D

[Linuxcool]

You're welcome, DMR. I found that info on Google while looking for something else. :)

[DMR]

Originally posted by Linuxcool:
<STRONG>You're welcome, DMR. I found that info on Google while looking for something else. :)</STRONG>Linuxcool,
The sad part is that I ran across that info a long time ago, also when doing a Google search for something/someone else. The fact that it went in one brain and out the other is the humiliating part...
;)

Thanks again.

[kowalsky]

thanks all,
I guess I have the CDROM on the IDE controller but it still looks for 2 drives in the other IDE controller...
I'll try do the thing with hda=none and hdb=none and see what happens,
thanks,
kowalsky