From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758569AbYDBO3x (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Apr 2008 10:29:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756275AbYDBO3o (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Apr 2008 10:29:44 -0400 Received: from hpsmtp-eml14.kpnxchange.com ([213.75.38.114]:52930 "EHLO hpsmtp-eml14.kpnxchange.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756497AbYDBO3n (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Apr 2008 10:29:43 -0400 From: Frans Pop To: Lennart Sorensen Subject: Re: No IDE drivers loaded for Toshiba Satellite 320 CDS Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 16:29:40 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <200804021524.27222.elendil@planet.nl> <20080402135729.GB24239@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <20080402135729.GB24239@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200804021629.41153.elendil@planet.nl> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Apr 2008 14:29:41.0319 (UTC) FILETIME=[FCF52570:01C894CD] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > How old is that system? Not sure. As the system only has 32MB RAM I'd say sometime late 1990s. > Maybe the IDE isn't even PCI based. That would explain why nothing shows > in lspci, but the IDE ports are still present and working. Could be. What would it be then? ISA? Any way to recognize that? I did find a product page, but it's low on real specs: http://www.toshiba.ca/web/product.grp?lg=en§ion=1&group=223&product=1605 > One could always just manually tell the system to always load > ide-generic, since deciding what to load does seem to be a userspace > choice these days. Well, in the Debian Installer we prefer to load things automatically whenever possible. If the kernel does not do it, that's fine. But to have the installer itself automatically load ide-generic for the user, we'd still have to somehow recognize that we need the driver. Any ideas/suggestions what to look for? Cheers, FJP