From: drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) Subject: Re: Linus not recognizing 2nd hard drive Date: 23 Jun 1992 22:33:44 GMT
In article <1317@yetti.UUCP> frank@cs.yorku.ca (Frank Pikelner) writes:
>As outlined in the install documents I boot the system from floppy and
>run the FDISK command. Yet only one of my drives comes up with the partition
>info. My machine has an IDE drive (in CMOS), and an ESDI drive on an UltraStor
>12f-24 controller (own BIOS). I have no problemswith OS/2 or DR DOS, but
>Linux does not see the ESDI drive (no real problems as I was going to install
>Linux on the IDE drive) - was just curious.
>
Linux does not support "normal" disk controllers at a secondary
address, or non-SCSI controllers that are not register compatable
with a "normal" 16 bit AT disk controller.