From: firehawk@centauri.unm.edu (-* FireHawk *-) Subject: [Q]: Kernel recognition of IDE/MFM combo? Date: 11 Apr 1993 03:13:08 GMT
In article <lsehufINNqki@agave.cs.utexas.edu> danielsi@cs.utexas.edu (Daniel Aaron Supernaw-Issen) writes:
:hey all, got a question.
:I got myself an ide controller/disk and an 8-bit mfm controller/disk.
:I want the two to co-exist peacefully. Linux is on the ide.
Would there be a way Linus could just have the kernel check for stuff like this?
DOS seems to have no problem acknowledging the two different drives but Linux is
braindead to the IDE controller. Is is possible that the kernel could also
check port addresses 170-177 (the secondary port address) and BIOS locations
C800 and CA00 to find the second controller? What does DOS do in finding the
second controller that Linux can't? There are apparently quite a few people
out there who have similar setups. This type of question keeps comming up to
to this newsgroup but there is never any real answer. =( Would atdisk resolve
this? I would test it but I don't have the disk space nor the time to wait
for a kernel recompile. (I am using HJ's 0.99pl7a distrib mixed with SLS =).
-Cheers! =)
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