Wednesday, July 19, 2006

ide troubles

After i got my Raid Array working i had another Problem with the debian kernel i upgraded (kernel-image-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8), my ide harddisk was not working..

Tracking the problem i found that there were no hd devices in /dev. I checked the config of the kernel and the kernel uses ide as a module. Ok, now all i had to do is to load the right module.

Since i was not very familiar with installing specific modules, or knowing which module was the right i had some troubles getting it working. ide-cd and ide-disk were loaded, still something was missing.

Today i found it: ide-generic. After loading it with modprobe everything was there in /dev and i was able to mount the disk. Now all i had to do is to add it in /etc/modules.

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