HPT366 ate my IDE controllers

HPT366 ate my IDE controllers

[Rahsheen Porter Sr.]

When I boot 2.6.0test11 on my Abit BP6, it *only* sees the HPT366
controllers. The other 2 controllers built in to the mobo don't show
up at all. All I see is what's plugged into the 2 HPT366 controllers.

So my root partition, which resides on /dev/hde1 with 2.4.20, becomes
/dev/hda1. And my extra partitions that were on /dev/hdg are on
/dev/hdc. This wouldn't be a problem accept that what was on /dev/hda
and hdc are now gone. 

What would cause the kernel to totally ignore the built in controllers?

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Rahsheen Porter	<microrahsheen@comcast.net>

Re: HPT366 ate my IDE controllers

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 04 December 2003 21:15, Rahsheen Porter Sr. wrote:
>When I boot 2.6.0test11 on my Abit BP6, it *only* sees the HPT366
>controllers. The other 2 controllers built in to the mobo don't show
>up at all. All I see is what's plugged into the 2 HPT366
> controllers.
>
>So my root partition, which resides on /dev/hde1 with 2.4.20,
> becomes /dev/hda1. And my extra partitions that were on /dev/hdg
> are on /dev/hdc. This wouldn't be a problem accept that what was on
> /dev/hda and hdc are now gone.
>
>What would cause the kernel to totally ignore the built in
> controllers?

I'd bet a small amount that there is something in the bios you've set 
that is making that decision for you.  Probably a boot offboard 
controllers first or some such.

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Re: HPT366 ate my IDE controllers

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On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 10:51:40PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 04 December 2003 21:15, Rahsheen Porter Sr. wrote:
> >So my root partition, which resides on /dev/hde1 with 2.4.20,
> > becomes /dev/hda1. And my extra partitions that were on /dev/hdg
> > are on /dev/hdc. This wouldn't be a problem accept that what was on
> > /dev/hda and hdc are now gone.
> >What would cause the kernel to totally ignore the built in
> > controllers?
> I'd bet a small amount that there is something in the bios you've set 
> that is making that decision for you.  Probably a boot offboard 
> controllers first or some such.

It's CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD, in the kernel.  But the behavior I noticed
is, with that kernel option, system assigns hda for the first disk on
the second controller (Promise here, not HPT, but that shouldn't matter
at all), and the drives on the motherboard controller get hde and so on.

Is OP sure that kernel really doesn't see the drives at all?  And
ofcourse if turning off CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD in the kernel fixes the
problem...

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