Re: [PLUG] iomega REV drive on Debian

[Lee Marzke <lee@marzke.net>]

Lee Marzke wrote:
> Now that I've switched to the Debian  kernel-image-2.6.8-k7 kernel  my 
> External
> Iomega REV  UDF drive works great.  ( the 2.4 kernel always mounted 
> it  ro )
>
> Howerver, I've just discovered that my IDE drives are all missing !
>
> Note: I just found the solution while typing this -> see below.  Maybe
> this can help someone else.  Why am I having so many problem with
> Debian stable and simple IDE and USB devices ?
>
> The system boots from an Adaptec IDE raid board that appears as 1
> SCSI drive, which works.  But my  /dev/hda boot disk  and cdrom are
> not detected, and no /dev files exist anymore.
>
> I found this link which may help.
>
> http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?t=140380&goto=nextoldest
> I've confirmed that the ide-detect ( or ide-probe ) modules are missing
>
> The IDE driver with the 2.4 kernel works, and is a SIS5513,  and I 
> found the
> following:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/01/msg00704.html
>
> So after doing a rmmod  sis5513,  and modprobe ide-generic.   the IDE
> drives FINALLY worked !

Now,   how do I get  ide-generic loaded at boot instead of   sis5513  ?

Lee
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