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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 18:58:44 +0100
From: Gunther Mayer <gunther.mayer@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: IDE on linux-2.4.18
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"Richard B. Johnson" wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > hda: 20044080 sectors (10263 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=1024/255/63, UDMA(33)
> > > Partition check:
> > >  hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 >
> > > hd: unable to get major 3 for hard disk
> >
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > Case dismissed ;)
>
> I haven't a clue what you are saying. Every IDE option that is allowed
> is enabled in .config. The IDE drive(s) are found, but you imply, no
> state, that I did something wrong. You state that I haven't enabled
> something? I enabled everything that 'make config` allowed me to
> enable. Now what is it?

You enabled too much(see hd.c):

    dep_bool '  Use old disk-only driver on primary interface'
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE

will hog "major 3" (which is needed by IDE driver later).


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