IDE Drives re-ordered after Kernel upgrade?

tendim · *nix forums beginner Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 1

I recently made the jump from a fairly stable 2.4.18 kernel to 2.4.29, after I
was having various problems with Signal 11's during huge FTP transfers. The
compile went fine and the Kernel seems to work, except..

I had to patch my /etc/fstab file to remap all of my IDE drives. Previously,
my drives were hdc and hdd, but after going to 2.4.29 they were remapped to
hdg and hdh. I've tried the following to rectify the problem:

- sending ide=reverse at the command line
- enabling and disabling the "Boot Offboard Chipsets First Support"
from the IDE section of the kernel config

The documentation doesn't seem to say anything. What I am confused about is
that 2.4.18 *also* has all of these IDE options, and using the old values
doesn't do anything. Also, I only have one IDE interface in my machine, so
I don't know why the system thinks there are phantom drives before hdg/hdh.

My machine:
- PowerMac 8500/G3
- Sonnet Tempo ULTRA66 IDE Card
- Belkin USB card

Any help would be appreciated.

Tks,
10d

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