Hi,

I Think i have to insert some modules before i do this, please tell me the name of those modules.

If you know the chipset for your ide controller, please post that. If you don't know, post the output of:

$ lspci

That will list everything on the pci bus, including the ide controller. You want to make sure that you have the appropriate module for that ide controller loaded. Also, post the output of:

# /sbin/lsmod

That will list all loaded modules.

Another thing that I find odd, you have an hdd but no hdc, at least none mentioned in your fstab or fdisk output. Normally, on an open ide bus, hdc would be master and hdd would be slave. That may indicate that you have the drive improperly jumpered or improperly wired. You shouldn't jumper and wire a drive to be slave on an ide channel if there is no master on the channel. What else do you have on the ide bus and why isn't there any entry for an hdc drive?

# /sbin/lspci
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5950 (rev 10)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5a3f
00:11.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc ATI 437A Serial ATA Controller (rev 80)
00:12.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc ATI 4379 Serial ATA Controller (rev 80)
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4374 (rev 80)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4375 (rev 80)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4373 (rev 80)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc ATI SMBus (rev 81)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller ATI (rev 80)
00:14.2 Class 0403: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 437b (rev 01)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4377 (rev 80)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4371 (rev 80)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5974
02:00.0 Communication controller: NetMos Technology PCI 9835 Multi-I/O Controller (rev 01)
02:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

# /sbin/lsmod
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Module Size Used by
vfat 14529 2
fat 44257 1 vfat
md5 4033 1
ipv6 232833 12
lp 12077 0
vboxdrv 30516 0
autofs4 23237 0
i2c_dev 11329 0
i2c_core 22081 1 i2c_dev
sunrpc 158757 1
dm_mod 56405 0
pl2303 16197 0
usbserial 25769 1 pl2303
joydev 10241 0
ohci_hcd 21713 0
ehci_hcd 30917 0
parport_serial 7617 0
parport_pc 24705 3 parport_serial
parport 37129 2 lp,parport_pc
snd_hda_intel 18068 4
snd_hda_codec 71956 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm_oss 49960 0
snd_mixer_oss 19200 3 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 92296 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 30596 1 snd_pcm
snd 57732 10 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 9889 3 snd
snd_page_alloc 10120 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
r8169 19657 0
floppy 58481 0
ext3 116937 2
jbd 71257 1 ext3
sata_sil 8517 5
libata 44189 1 sata_sil
sd_mod 17217 6
scsi_mod 121293 2 libata,sd_mod
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

The other device which i connected through IDE is cdrom drive. I had removed the jumper of the harddisk to make it slave.

Thanks and Regards,
Naveen

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...mitted-260894/

If you read that thread like I did, you either need to recompile your kernel, or figure out how to add the module to initrd without recompiling.. (which I think is impossible.. sorry bro)

Your IDE controller has an ATI chipset. The correct module for it is pata_atiixp and this module is not currently loaded. Try manually loading the module with:

# /sbin/modprobe pata_atiixp

And, if it successfully loads, rerun your hdparm tests and see if it works.

The module pata_atiixp not present. how do i compile that without recompiling the kernel.

I am getting the error as :
FATAL: Module pata_atiixp not found.

I will try to find it.

Regards,
Naveen.

Try:

# /sbin/modprobe atiixp

If it doesn't load, post the output of:

$ uname -a

That will give me some idea of what kernel we're working with.

# uname -a


Linux LocalHost 2.6.9-11.EL #1 Fri May 20 18:17:57 EDT 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

Hi,

i have

/lib/modules/2.6.9-11.EL/kernel/sound/pci/snd-atiixp-modem.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.9-11.EL/kernel/sound/pci/snd-atiixp.ko

shall i insert them and try?

No, those are sound modules on certain ATI motherboards.

Just googling around, it looks like there was no kernel support for that ATI ide controller until 2.6.12. I'm not that familiar with RHEL kernels, but I don't think your ATI motherboard existed in 2005 which is when your kernel(2.6.9-11) was compiled.

I would check with RH and see if an updated kernel is available.

Oh!!! getting harder and harder.

I am planning to do one more thing time being to extend my memory.

In SATA hardisk i have F drive formatted with ntfs. I was using it for windows.

can i format that partition with ext3 and mount on /home/naveen/Extra and use as a extension of memory?

---------------------------------------------------------------------
/sbin/fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hdd: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdd1 * 1 1275 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdd2 1276 4679 27342630 5 Extended
/dev/hdd5 1276 4679 27342598+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1306 10490413+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2 1307 1319 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 1320 3231 15358140 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 3232 9964 54082822+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 3232 3362 1052226 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda6 3363 3848 3903763+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda7 3849 9964 49126738+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
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