Re: ata controller card

[Sascha Wildner <saw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Hacker wrote:

> 'Quick and dirty' - go ahead and attach the old drive to the new 
> controller that is ID'ing as the matching ad/~ (if you can do..)
>
> Otherwise:
>
> Pls e-mail me model-specific info.
>
> Also - if you can - *before* OS boot starts, try to freeze the POST 
> screen of the machine and get me the info about card ID codes and INT / 
> IRQ assignment at that point.  Compare those with dmesg, 'coz OS/2 and 
> the *BSD's have their own probes and can disagree with BIOS.
>
> Likewise BIOS settings - i.e. do you have these set to what *is* or 
> 'AUTO' and 'search other drives'. And if auto, what is is finding?
>
> > I hope there's a way because I really need those disks badly. :|
>
>
> Been there - you may have to juggle some cards to have somthing like a 
> NIC grab an assignment before the new card get to pick and choose.  Sure 
> miss DIP switches...
>
> Worst case -  modify boot record and fstab.... but *not yet*...
>
> I'll be online for another hour or so...

I solved it by just putting ad8 instead of ad4 in my fstab and creating 
the necessary entries in /dev. Sorry for the noise.

Sascha

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