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Bug 23878 - CMD646 IDE Driver not present
Summary: CMD646 IDE Driver not present
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: PPC Linux
: High major (vote)
Assignee: PPC Porters
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Reported: 2003-07-02 10:27 UTC by Martin Espinoza
Modified: 2006-02-04 06:03 UTC (History)
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Description Martin Espinoza 2003-07-02 10:27:06 UTC 
The primary IDE bus in a Blue and White G3 uses the CMD646 chip. This is where 
the hard drive lives. (The cd plugs into the second bus, whose driver is 
already in the kernel.) Without the CMD646 driver in the installer kernel, you 
cannot install gentoo on a Blue and White G3.

It would be worth installing the aic7xxx driver also as that is apparently a 
common SCSI card for these macs, in the form of the 2930-mac. (My G3 has one in 
it, I don't know if it came with it or not.)
Comment 1 Pieter Van den Abeele (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-07-14 15:35:35 UTC 
rc8 livecd from dev.gentoo.org/~pvdabeel/testing/ has this fixed 
.config available from ~pvdabeel/kernel/

kde/gnome livecd following