FastTrack 133 "Lite" or why there is no /dev/hda

[Martin Mewes]

Hi folks,

recently I installed Fedore Core 1 on a PC with a FastTrack 133 "Lite" 
on it.

<14:33:12> macmewes at linux:~ $ df
Filesystem           1K-Blöcke   Benutzt Verfügbar Ben% Eingehängt auf
/dev/hdg2             79048292   6264524  68768324   9% /
/dev/hdg1               101086      8337     87530   9% /boot
/dev/hdh1             77348004    375092  73043820   1% /home
none                    775416         0    775416   0% /dev/shm

This is a parallel installation with Windows XP which is on the first 
two harddisks which I would see as hda and hdb if Fedora Kernels came 
with NTFS-Support for mounting them into my system for reading only.

I do not want to start a chit-chat about why this feature is not in 
Fedore-Kernels, but what I wonder about is if Windows XP resides on 
hda and hdb why Fedora (as well as SuSE, RedHat, Knoppix, Debian ...) 
is starting to acutally see the harddisks not with hda but hde?

A "demsg"-extract for you ...

[...]

Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with 
idebus=xx
SiI3112 Serial ATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:08.0
SiI3112 Serial ATA: chipset revision 2
SiI3112 Serial ATA: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
    ide1: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
PDC20276: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:0f.0
PDC20276: chipset revision 1
PDC20276: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide2: BM-DMA at 0xc400-0xc407, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
    ide3: BM-DMA at 0xc408-0xc40f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:11.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with 
idebus=xx
VP_IDE: VIA vt8235 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci00:11.1
    ide4: BM-DMA at 0xd400-0xd407, BIOS settings: hdi:pio, hdj:pio
    ide5: BM-DMA at 0xd408-0xd40f, BIOS settings: hdk:DMA, hdl:pio
hda: no response (status = 0xfe)
hdc: no response (status = 0xfe)
hde: IC35L090AVV207-0, ATA DISK drive
hdf: IC35L090AVV207-0, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03ff0f8, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
blk: queue c03ff238, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdg: IC35L090AVV207-0, ATA DISK drive
hdh: IC35L090AVV207-0, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03ff554, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
blk: queue c03ff694, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdk: DV-516E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide2 at 0xb400-0xb407,0xb802 on irq 10
ide3 at 0xbc00-0xbc07,0xc002 on irq 10
ide5 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hde: attached ide-disk driver.
hde: host protected area => 1
hde: 160836480 sectors (82348 MB) w/1821KiB Cache, CHS=10011/255/63, 
UDMA(100)
hdf: attached ide-disk driver.
hdf: host protected area => 1
hdf: 160836480 sectors (82348 MB) w/1821KiB Cache, CHS=10011/255/63, 
UDMA(100)
hdg: attached ide-disk driver.
hdg: host protected area => 1
hdg: 160836480 sectors (82348 MB) w/1821KiB Cache, CHS=10011/255/63, 
UDMA(100)
hdh: attached ide-disk driver.
hdh: host protected area => 1
hdh: 160836480 sectors (82348 MB) w/1821KiB Cache, CHS=10011/255/63, 
UDMA(100)
Partition check:
 hde: hde1
 hdf: hdf1
 hdg: hdg1 hdg2
 hdh: hdh1 hdh2
ide: late registration of driver.

[...]

Any hints?

bis dahin/kind regards

Martin Mewes

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