Re: 2.3.4[89] fail to probe/id IDE properly (long)

From: Tim Coleman (tim@beastor.mine.nu)
Date: Sat Mar 04 2000 - 20:22:04 EST


On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 08:05:20PM +0100, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote:
> Den 03-Mar-00 04:27:40 skrev Pete Clements følgende om "2.3.4[89] fail to probe/id IDE properly (long)":
> > 2.3.48 and 2.3.49 fail to properly probe/id IDE. This box is an i486
> > with no pci bus and none configured. Below is the boot log for
> > 2.3.49 followed by the boot log for the working 2.3.47 kernel.
>
> Something is slightly weird. What does your /proc/ioports say? Mine with
> 2.3.49:
>
> # cat /proc/ioports
> [...]
> 01f0-01f0 : ide0
> 01f1-01f1 : ide0
> 01f2-01f2 : ide0
> 01f3-01f3 : ide0
> 01f4-01f4 : ide0
> 01f5-01f5 : ide0
> 01f6-01f6 : ide0
> 01f7-01f7 : ide0
> [...]
> 03f6-03f6 : ide0
> [...]
>
> Notice the many ide0 entries for eight consecutive port addresses. With
> 2.3.46 it looks like this:
>
> # cat /proc/ioports
> [...]
> 01f0-01f7 : ide0
> [...]
> 03f6-03f6 : ide0
> [...]
>
> Notice that ide0 only takes two entries here.

Note, however that they take up the same ranges.

Tim

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