Bug 84566

Summary:	Please inform about IDE mapping option in kernel configuration
Product:	[OLD] Docs-user	Reporter:	Luca Barbato <lu_zero>
Component:	Handbook	Assignee:	Docs Team <docs-team>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	PPC
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Luca Barbato gentoo-dev

2005-03-08 16:50:31 UTC

Let me quote the description about CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_PMAC_ATA100FIRST

 This option will cause the ATA/100 controller found in UniNorth2        
 based machines (Windtunnel PowerMac, Aluminium PowerBooks, ...)      
 to be probed before the ATA/66 and ATA/33 controllers. Without       
 these, those machine used to have the hard disk on hdc and the       
 CD-ROM on hda. This option changes this to more natural hda for      
 hard disk and hdc for CD-ROM. 

Device drivers -> IDE ->

[*]     Builtin PowerMac IDE support
[*]       Probe internal ATA/100 (Kauai) first 

Sometimes users got problems in booting the first time because of that.

Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-25 06:29:37 UTC

Sorry, but the installation instructions shouldn't start dealing with possible quircks people can come across. It's a generic installation line. For this kind of support, I believe the forums and IRC are a better medium, or perhaps a support-specific database.