RE: IDE Card

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

Now we are getting somewhere - where do I get and how do I load a
driver/module for my card?   Is there a generic driver that may work?

I'll check out the other areas you suggest.

Thanks

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Thomas Dodd [SMTP:ted cypress com]
> Sent:	Friday, June 29, 2001 2:14 PM
> To:	redhat-install-list redhat com
> Subject:	Re: IDE Card
> 
> "Mugleston, Brad" wrote:
> > 
> > Mark, Richard and everyone else,
> > 
> > Thanks for the replies - we've established that the SCSI card I see
> under
> > windows that I have my CD's connected to is the same device I see under
> > Linux in the /proc/pci file.
> > 
> > Now how do I mount my CD's?   I made a directory called (cdu - for CD
> upper)
> > and did a mount /dev/hd* /cdu and got an error (it was late last night
> and I
> > didn't write it down, sorry -something like that device isn't there).  I
> > tried all kinds of combinations to replace the * (c, c1, c2, d, d1, d2,
> b,
> > b1, b2...) but I got the same error (no I didn't really use a *, just
> the
> > replacements).
> 
> 
> Did you load a driver/module for the addin card ?
> 
> /proc/pci is not well maintained, use lspci instead
> both only show what the kernel sees on the PCI bus.
> It says nothing about what drivers are being used.
> 
> check the output from dmesg or /var/log/messages for
> the IDE detection. I get:
> 
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15
> 
> They are also listed in /proc/ioports
> and /proc/interrupts.
> 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: redhat-install-list-admin redhat com
> 
> 
> > > >       Vendor id=1103. Device id=4.
> 
> checking the PCI database for lspci,
> /usr/share/pci.ids this is an HPT366
> controler.
> 
> > > >   Bus  0, device  14, function  0:
> > > >       Medium devsel.  IRQ 11.  Master Capable.  Latency=248.  Min
> > > >       I/O at 0xdcd8 [0xdcd9].
> > > >       I/O at 0xdcd0 [0xdcd1].
> > > >       I/O at 0xd800 [0xd801].
> > > >   Bus  0, device  14, function  1:
> > > >       Medium devsel.  IRQ 11.  Master Capable.  Latency=248.  Min
> > > >       I/O at 0xdcc8 [0xdcc9].
> > > >       I/O at 0xdcd4 [0xdcd5].
> > > >       I/O at 0xd400 [0xd401].
> 
> 
> you should see ide? and ide? with a matching address on irq 11
> in dmesg, /proc/ioports, and /proc/interrupts.
> 
> If not there is no driver for the devices, so you cannot access them.
> 
> The kernel from Red Hat might not have support for this card
> either. Install the kernel-sources rpm (not src.rpm!)
> and look at /usr/src/linux-2.4/configs/ for
> the kernel you have installed. See if 
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HTP366=y is there. If you see
> 
> #CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HTP366 is not set
> 
> Then you need to build a new kernel with support.
> If you want to BOOT from a device on that disk
> read /usr/src/linux-2.4/Configure.help
> and search for HTP366 in the file.
> 
> 	-Thomas
> 
> 
> 
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