hda/hdb not detected....reseting

[Gibby]

I recently installed linux (RH 7.0 and Mandrake 7.1) on a machine that I built from leftovers. There are no IDE drives, all scsi and yet durring boot-up the kernal seems to look for a hda and/or hdb. The machine eventually boots, but it takes 10-15 minutes to do so. Would re-compiling the kernal without IDE/ATAPI support fix this problem? What else would solve this?

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[demian]

Would re-compiling the kernal without IDE/ATAPI support fix this problem?
[/B]
I guess it would but still this 15min break during boot shouldn't happen. What messages do you get before and after it sleeps?

[Gibby]

The message is as follows

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apm: BIOS version 1.1 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.13)
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096 size
hda: no response (status=0xa1), resetting drive
hda: no response (status=0xa1)
hdb: no response (status=0xa1), resetting drive
hdb: no response (status=0xa1)

It repeats those last 4 lines several times, not the same amount each time. The (status=) changes as well. Then eventualy it gets on to the normal booting proceedure.

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[This message has been edited by Gibby (edited 07 January 2001).]

[demian]

How about switching the IDE controller off in the BIOS setup?

[Gibby]

No dice, there's nothing in the bios that reffers to that. There isn't even an ide interface on the motherboard. I'm going to try recompiling.

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Doing nothing is entirely under-rated.