From: LightSide (light.side_at_gte.net)
Date: Thu Nov 15 2001 - 03:44:09 EST
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:13:39 +0100 (CET), Michal Pleban wrote:
>
>Hello!
>
>I have some questions concerning my TP 365X hardware. When my Linux boots,
>I see:
>
>PIIX: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 08
>PIIX: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>PIIX: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS)
That is not good. You might want to reset the bios back to default settings and reboot to see if that clears it
up.
>My HD works now fine, but I'm curious why it says that "neither IDE port
>enabled", and in Easy Setup I don't see any option to mess up with IDE
>configuration. Is there any uneasy setup maybe? ;-))
It has to be enabled. If it was disabled, you wouldn't be able to boot to the harddrive. Believe it or not, there
are some back doors to the BIOS. Try default settings and start from there.
Robert
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