It is a Dell issue with the docking station.
It is ugly!!
LAPTOP
Disk hda on IDE0
Cdrom hdc on IDE1
LAPTOP in STATION
Disk hda on IDE0
Disk hdc (dock station) on IDE1
Cdrom hdg on IDE3
The mix of cardbus and station interfaces..........
GAD!!!!!
On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Kjartan Maraas wrote:
> Kjartan Maraas wrote:
> >
> > Hi.
> >
>
> Haven't heard anything from Dell support, so I'm
> following up here with some more info.
>
> After thinking it was a problem that stemmed from
> a BIOS upgrade, I downgraded to the version I had before.
>
> Surprisingly this didn't work and suddenly I remembered
> that I had also done a firmware upgrade. :)
>
> This is probably not that easy to downgrade.
>
> >
> > from dmesg (without hdc=cdrom):
> >
> > Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
> > PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> > PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> > ide0: BM-DMA at 0x0860-0x0867, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
> > ide1: BM-DMA at 0x0868-0x086f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> > hda: IBM-DADA-26480, ATA DISK drive
> > ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe
>
> Why does it report itself as ide2: ? Wouldn't ide1 be more
> logical since this is a laptop with just a HD and a CDROM?
>
> >
> > With hdc=cdrom I get the following:
> >
> > Jan 23 09:29:54 km-lt kernel: PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe
> > irqs later
> > Jan 23 09:29:54 km-lt kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0x0860-0x0867, BIOS
> > settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
> > Jan 23 09:29:54 km-lt kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0x0868-0x086f, BIOS
> > settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> > Jan 23 09:29:54 km-lt kernel: hda: IBM-DADA-26480, ATA DISK drive
> > Jan 23 09:29:54 km-lt kernel: hdc: IRQ probe failed (0)
> > Jan 23 09:29:54 km-lt kernel: hdc: IRQ probe failed (0)
> > Jan 23 09:29:54 km-lt kernel: hdd: IRQ probe failed (0)
> > Jan 23 09:29:54 km-lt kernel: hdd: IRQ probe failed (0)
> > Jan 23 09:29:54 km-lt kernel: ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe
> > Jan 23 09:29:54 km-lt kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> > Jan 23 09:29:54 km-lt kernel: hda: IBM-DADA-26480, 6194MB w/460kB Cache,
> > CHS=789/255/63
>
> Cheers
> Kjartan Maraas
>
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