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On 26 Mar, Hubert Mantel wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998 dedwards@technologist.com wrote:
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hdb: probing with STATUS instead of ALTSTATUS hdb: probing with STATUS instead of ALTSTATUS
Is this bad?? - what can I do to get rid of these messages??
AFAIK this is just a workaround for some old harddrives. Do you have ancient Seagate drives? I think it's just informational and should not cause any problems.
Dave E.
Hubert
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No, Actually, what I *did* have was a Maxtor 2.1g drive on the first onboard EIDE controller, with my 24x CDRom drive as a slave (which skips on audio tracks - but thats another question :->). I re-compiled my kernel to take advantage of my 2nd onboard EIDE controller, set my CDRom up as a Master and put it onto the @nd controller. The CDRom works, the Maxtor 2.1g drive works, but now I get the above messages - looks like the boot is expecting something in the slave position of the 1st controller (/dev/hdb) which *used* to be my CDRom. Maybe there is some unusual (for me anyways) setting I have failed to make or unset. -- Dave E. -Linux 2.0.30 -SuSE 5.0-- Linux - the choice of a GNU Generation--- No more Blue screen of Death - and no regrets - Goodbye Microsoft! ----------------------Cyrix 586/100-32meg-2g----------------------- SHAMELESS Plug:-- dedwards@technologist.com 23yr of MF exp. avail. for home-based outsourcing contracts. ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e