by I have read plenty of posts on NEC260's but I haven't seen
this error reported before. My NEC-260R is in a Gateway P5-90. The
machine has two 1G WDC drives on the EIDE interface and the cdrom
alone on the ISA IDE interface. Linux is on the second WDC drive
with / in hdb2, swap in hdb3, and /usr in hdb4. I use version 1.1.92
of the kernel. The kernel doesn't seem to recognize the cdrom or the
ISA IDE interface at boot time. It finds the EIDE interface at
IRQ14 but not ISA interface at IRQ15. When I try to mount the cdrom
on /dev/nec260 (major 26 minor 0) or /dev/hdc (major 22 minor 0),
I get the following error message:
mount: /dev/hdc (or whatever) is not a block device
Both /dev/nec260 and /dev/hdc are block devices; their permissions
start with a 'b'. I have deleted and remade the device files with
the mknod command and have run the "MAKEDEV..etc.." script in
/usr/src/linux/drivers/block that is referenced in the ide.c and
ide-cd.c source files. I have also played with the #defines in
ide.c to no avail. I have tried /dev/hdc[0-16] for a device file and
all fail in the same way. I boot from DOS with loadlinux.
Thanks in advance.
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Keith Bobitt Ph. 919-941-5740x4125
Wandel & Goltermann Technologies RTP, NC
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