Background:
I have a (common) motherboard with onboard IDE. I have added more IDE
ports using a Promise IDE controller, and I have recompiled the kernel to
enable support for Promise controllers (support is disabled by default
in Slackware kernels.) I am using kernel 2.4.24.

Problem:
If I compile support for this card as a module (as I would do for
any add-in PCI card,) and if I load the module with modprobe, then the
card is identified and assigned ide2, and ide3 (as shown in dmesg.) The
problem is the devices attached to the device are not recognized, and
there are no entries for /proc/ide/ide2 or /proc/ide/ide3.

Question:
Is there some command which needs to reset/re-initialize all of the IDE
channels-- so that, the PCI card can be "joined" with the onboard IDE? I
looked at "man hdparm" but perhaps I missed something that someone here
has had experience with.

BTW, if the support for this card is built-in (not modular), then the card
works just fine. This makes me think the problem is that some final
kernel activation is necessary. Although, I would normally think that
is activated when the module loads.

Thanks,
Douglas Mayne

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Douglas Mayne wrote:

> Background:
> I have a (common) motherboard with onboard IDE. I have added more IDE
> ports using a Promise IDE controller, and I have recompiled the kernel to
> enable support for Promise controllers (support is disabled by default
> in Slackware kernels.) I am using kernel 2.4.24.
>

I don't necessarily have a solution; I would just like you to know that
support for IDE cards is supported out of the box. I have 2 models of
Promise cards, one type of Silicon Image, and some Highpoints. All of
these work seamlessly with the stock install of Slack (at least 9.0 & 9.1).

Neil

On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 08:12:35 -0700, Neil Koozer wrote:

> Douglas Mayne wrote:
>
>> Background:
>> I have a (common) motherboard with onboard IDE. I have added more IDE
>> ports using a Promise IDE controller, and I have recompiled the kernel to
>> enable support for Promise controllers (support is disabled by default
>> in Slackware kernels.) I am using kernel 2.4.24.
>>
>
> I don't necessarily have a solution; I would just like you to know that
> support for IDE cards is supported out of the box. I have 2 models of
> Promise cards, one type of Silicon Image, and some Highpoints. All of
> these work seamlessly with the stock install of Slack (at least 9.0 & 9.1).
>
> Neil

I similarly have a Promise ide pci card. Worked perfectly on the stock
Slackware kernel (2.4.20 - 2.4.24). It seems to me that something like
that would HAVE to be compiled into the kernel, rather than loaded as a
module at boot time. Just my two cents. Sorry I don't have anything more
helpful to say...

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