IDE - thanks

["Mugleston, Brad" <brad mugleston gwl com>]

you did it - Thanks for all the help.  I was able to access my SIIG Ultra
ATA 66 PCI card under RedHat 6.0 - with out having to do a patch or
anything.

Thanks

Brad

What, you'd like to know how I did it - I'm not telling (just kidding).

Here goes, I'm going to tell you what I did (none of this was my idea, it
came from the group).

Looking at my /proc/pci file I saw the following

Vendor id = 1103 Device id=4

IRQ 11

I/O at 0xdcd8
I/O at 0xdcd0
I/O at 0xd800

Vendor id = 1103 Device id=4

IRQ 11

I/O at 0xdcc8
I/O at 0xdcd4
I/O at 0xd400

Which matched what my Windows was identifying the card so I knew RH could
see it. RH just didn't know what to do with it.

Looking in my /usr/share/pci.ids vender 1103 was there but id=4 was not
(id=3 was).  I was told that id=4 identified the card as a HTP366.

Doing a search on the web for HTP366 took me to a site that talked about
dealing with the HTP366 card and older Linux (pre 2.4).  I had the option of
downloading some patches or just telling Linux how to handle that card on
boot so at the boot prompt I typed in 
Linux ide1=0xded8,0xdcd2,11 ide2=0xdcc8,0xdcd6,11
and it booted and recognized my two CDROM's (look in /var/log/messages)

After that it was a quick edit of lilo.conf to 
append=ide1=0xded8,0xdcd2,11 ide2=0xdcc8,0xdcd6,11 
then run lilo to update the boot up process.

Then I updated fstab to let me easily mount my two CDROM's

I'm cooking.  Yes, I realize by not using the patches I am not using the
full capabilities of my card but my drives aren't up to it anyway.

Thanks

Brad

Question - lets say I would have gone into my /usr/share/pci.ids to add
Device id=4 and referenced it to my Device id=3.   Would that have worked or
is what I did saver as It's only given me the basic access?