No change. Although I guess I may as well deactivate it, as I don't use
it.
Now, I fiddled with my other BIOS settings (SATA mode, IDE mode, etc)
and any combination of options besides what I have now (SATA combined
mode, AHCI, both IDE channels active (even though there is only one on
the board)... results in no drive, no cdroms, or the system simply
hanging at the post screen.
I think this is what you get when a vendor ignores everything except
Windows.
On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 22:35 -0400, Eben King wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Paul Bransford wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 22:06 -0400, Paul Bransford wrote:
> >> Hi all!
> >>
> >> On boot, I seem to randomly get either of these /dev/ assignments:
> >>
> >> HD0: /dev/hda
> >> CDROM0: /dev/hdc
> >> CDROM1: /dev/hdd
> >>
> >> -or-
> >>
> >> HD0: /dev/hde
> >> CDROM0: /dev/hdg
> >> cdrom1: /dev/hdh
> >>
> >> ... there seems to be no rhyme or reason for the floppiness.
>
> [snip]
>
> >> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>
> > Hrm, I think I may have found the source of the wierdness...
> >
> > My board has a second SATA controller for the eSata ports on the back. I
> > don't use (and don't forsee using) those, so disabling that
> > controller /should/ stop the 'musical block nodes'?
> >
> > Is there a way to figure out which controller a given block device
> > belongs to? Otherwise, I get to follow traces on the board or start
> > looking up chip specsheets and probing the connectors. I would rather
> > stay away from that...
>
> You could try disabling one controller (the one you don't want active) and
> see what shows up.
>
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