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From: Hamish Moffatt
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 00:00

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Friday August 30 1996 14:08, thorfinn@zip.com.au wrote:

 > In article <50402l$lkf@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>, Ben wrote:
 >> : There's a number of possible solutions, from upgrading your kernel to
 >> : a 2.0.x kernel, which supports the tertiary and quaternary IDE ports,
 >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 >> Other earlier versions support the tertiary and quarternary ports as well.

 > 1.2.13 (the previous latest stable kernel release) does not support
 > those devices.

Yes, it does. You just have to tell it on the kernel command line where these
interfaces live, ide2=x,y,z and ide3=x,y,z. 2.0.x has defaults for these (and 
will presumably check for them), 1.2.x did not.


hamish

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