[LUNI] IDE controller on motherboard

[Stephan V Bechtolsheim]

The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9, Version 2.2.

The reason I suspect the IDE controller is that upon reboot which IDE drives are recognized (by the BIOS) varies - all the IDE channels
are set to "AUTO" detection mode. Nevertheless sometimes no IDE drive is recognized, sometimes all of them are recognized. Sometimes
the (single) drive on the primary channel (master) fails to be recognized, but the others are.

Makes no sense to me ....

Thank you!

StvB

----- Original Message ----
From: Craig Van Tassle <craig at codestorm.org>
To: Linux Users Of Northern Illinois - Technical Discussion <luni at luni.org>
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 9:56:08 AM
Subject: Re: [LUNI] IDE controller on motherboard

On most motherboards the IDE chipset does control both Chains at once IIRC, and I have seen where a IDE controler went
bad. Usually though when an onboard system like the IDE chains go bad there are other more serious problems on the board.

What type of motherboard do you have and why do you think that its the onboard IDE that is bad?

Craig