tlug: Added an IDE drive, took it out, and now...

[Grendel <grendel@example.com>]

Hello,

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. The following's probably related to
inexperience with messing with lilo and kernel configuration...

The patient is a K6-2 300MHz, Asus P5A, Diamond Multimedia Fireport 40 (runs under
RedHat 6.0 just fine if you select ncr53c8xx PCI as the SCSI card driver during
install), and IBM Ultrastar 9ES DDRS-34560 running RedHat 6.0. Before I installed
RedHat I turned off everything related to IDE I could find in the motherboard's BIOS
setup since I had no IDE devices attached. Afterwards I returned the floppy drive and
CD-ROM drive I borrowed for the install.

Earlier this week I tried to read an old Conner FCS425A hard drive (IDE, 425 megs) that
had been in a machine running FreeBSD 2.2.5. I re-enabled IDE in the BIOS, and actually
found a mount command that worked with at least one partition on the drive, though I
still think I didn't read everything I could and will probably try FreeBSD on another
machine later.

Now that I've taken the IDE drive back out and re-DISabled everything I could find in
the BIOS setup relating to IDE, everytime I reboot it spends about 15 minutes probing
for the IDE drive that is no longer there, even though I've removed every trace of it
from from /etc/mtab and /etc/fstab. I've tried running /sbin/lilo even though I don't
yet know whether any of the command line options would help. Here's a sample of what I
find in /var/log/messages after a reboot:

Oct 22 14:48:53 q3 kernel: PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 78,
VID=10b9, DID=5229 
Oct 22 14:48:53 q3 kernel: PCI_IDE: placing both ports into native PCI mode 
Oct 22 14:48:53 q3 kernel: PCI_IDE: device enabled (Linux) 
Oct 22 14:48:53 q3 kernel: PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later 
Oct 22 14:48:53 q3 kernel: PCI_IDE: simplex device:  DMA disabled 
Oct 22 14:48:53 q3 kernel: ide0: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) 
Oct 22 14:48:53 q3 kernel: PCI_IDE: simplex device:  DMA disabled 
Oct 22 14:48:53 q3 kernel: ide1: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) 
Oct 22 14:48:53 q3 kernel: hda: probing with STATUS(0xff) instead of ALTSTATUS(0x08) 
Oct 22 14:48:53 q3 kernel: hda: probing with STATUS(0xff) instead of ALTSTATUS(0x08) 
Oct 22 14:48:53 q3 kernel: hda: no response (status = 0xff), resetting drive 
Oct 22 14:48:53 q3 kernel: hda: probing with STATUS(0xff) instead of ALTSTATUS(0x08) 
Oct 22 14:48:53 q3 kernel: hda: no response (status = 0xff) 
Oct 22 14:48:53 q3 kernel: hdb: probing with STATUS(0xff) instead of ALTSTATUS(0x08) 
Oct 22 14:48:53 q3 kernel: hdb: probing with STATUS(0xff) instead of ALTSTATUS(0x08) 

It cycles through hda, hdb, on through to hdk, then does the whole thing again two more
times before giving up. Does anyone know what I could be doing wrong?

TIA,
Grendel
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