PCI IDE controller problems

[hawkeye1991]

Hi everyone,

I'm a newbie, so please bear with me.

I have a computer with SATA HD and no spare IDE port. So I installed
a new pci ide card in my computer. when I connect a hard rive to one of IDE ports, It is recognized by the bios.

When I boot from a PTA instacake linux boot cd, the IDE card is recognized by the OS, however the hard drive is not. The CD-ROm is listed as HDA. The ide ports from the ide card are listed as hde, hdf, hdg and hdh.

Can any one help me with this. Thanks!

[Uncle_Steve]

I'm still suffering from "sleep inertia", but I don't understand exactly. Maybe some more info will help.

Do you see messages similar to this during boot:

ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xD000 ctl 0xC802 bmdma 0xB800 irq 169
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xC400 ctl 0xC002 bmdma 0xB808 irq 169

Those of course would be your SATA controllers, and if you left drives attached, you'd see something like this:

scsi1 : sata_via
Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD1600JS-55M Rev: 02.0
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)

How is your add-on controller recognized? You mentioned hde, hdf, ...

Do you see any messages like this which would indicate a PATA disk drive attached:

hda: Maxtor 6B300R0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: max request size: 512KiB
hda: 586114704 sectors (300090 MB) w/16384KiB Cache, CHS=36483/255/63, UDMA(133)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3

I'm off to get a caffeine fix....

[jporter12]

What I did to get around this was unplug the existing IDE (and SATA) devices in my computer while working with the TiVo drive. I had connected only the TiVo drive, and my CDrom. Made the most sense to me since those were the only 2 devices I needed to work with the TiVo drive. That keeps things nice and simple!