Re: Ideas for v2.1

Mikael Abrahamsson (mike@uplift.sparta.lu.se)
Tue, 11 Jun 1996 13:30:59 +0200 (MET DST)


On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Jon Tombs wrote:

> Mikael Abrahamsson said:
> >
> > On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Aaron Tiensivu wrote:
> >
> > > o Modularization of ide.c and ide-cd.c
> >
> > Fixing the ide-code so that it doesnt spew errormessages and other
> > weirdness when you just have /dev/hda and /dev/hdc (two master disks) and
> > it takes for granted that if you have two ide disks, they should be
> > /dev/hda and /dev/hdb. I think this is in the partition check part. I
> > changed back to having them on the same bus just to get rid of the
> > cosmetical error. It still worked with hda and hdc.
>
> This sounds like you didn't have your disks jumpered correctly. I have
> just hda and hdc in two machines, and with triton MBs it is quite a common
> thing to do. Never seen any errors.

What it did was to try to access hda and hdb when checking partitions,
giving me about 10 lines of device not accessable. When trying to mount
partitions it worked perfectly though. This is with a triton MB and late
linux kernels.