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From: "Ed Sweetman" <ed.sweetman@wmich.edu>
To: "Lukas Geyer" <geyer@ml.kva.se>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: Two issues with 2.4.18pre3 on PPC
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 10:24:30 -0500
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> Hi,
>
> I am very glad that the PPC patches are now merged so I can use a
> mainstream kernel again on my iBook. Thanks to all the people who did
> this. It works quite fine so far but there are two minor problems:
>
> - The kernel ignores the boot parameter hdb=ide-scsi, it probes hdb anyway
>   and loads the ATAPI CD-ROM driver. The problem may be (I am really not
>   familiar with the kernel internals) the function pmac_ide_probe() in
>   drivers/ide/ide-pmac.c which does not check for any kernel boot
>   parameters at all.
This has beed changed for some time now.  You need to pass some ignore
argument to the ide-cdrom driver and load it first then load the ide-scsi
which will detect any remaining atapi devices.  I could give you the exact
line if my system wasn't dead at the moment.



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