[ale] Mixing SATA and IDE?

[Dow Hurst]

Yes, I have tried putting the drive physically in the machine, and then 
upon boot, tried mounting the drive.  It acted like there was no 
filesystem on the drive.  It is a ext3 filesystem and one partition but 
the drive wasn't recognized.  After some work, I realized that the ide 
module was missing and the SATA drive was recognized via the SCSI 
modules.  So, I thought maybe that I needed to compile the kernel with 
the ide module enabled.
Dow


Jonathan Glass wrote:

>Quoting Dow_Hurst <dhurst at mindspring.com>:
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>>That doesn't work since there is no module to mount the drive.  I have to
>>provide that.  I just wondered if mixing SATA and IDE was not going to work. 
>>Dell wouldn't sell a mixed machine so when it didn't have the module needed
>>then I wondered.  Just checking before I go to the trouble.
>>Dow
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>I must be misunderstanding your problem.  You have a machine w/SATA and IDE, 
>running RHEL3 on the SATA drives.  The kernel doesn't require any special 
>drivers/modules for the EIDE drives..only for the SATA ones.
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>Have you tried this yet?
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