PCMCIA: Installation from or on a PCMCIA-IDE device does not work (6.4)

Support knowledgebase (findeisen_pcmcia_ide_patch_inst_64)
Applies to

SuSE Linux: Version 6.4
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Kernel: Version 2.2.14

Symptom:

You like to install from an IDE device (e.g. a CD-ROM drive) or on an IDE device (e.g. an external harddisk) connected to a PCMCIA-IDE card.
You are booting from the SuSE bootdisk or CD1 or CD2. After loading the PCMCIA modules using Linuxrc, the IDE device isn't recognized.

Cause:

There's an error in the IDE-code, that concerns the IDE support for PCMCIA devices.

Solution:

For the installation from a PCMCIA-IDE device, you need a special bootdisk that includes the revised kernel.

Procedure:

You can find the disk image for such a bootdisk at:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/disks/laptop
and an image for the module disk (if necessary; the PCMCIA modules are already on the laptop-bootdisk) can be found at:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/disks/modules

Copy the disk image to a floppy disk.

Under DOS you can do that using the program rawrite, which can be found in the directory /dosutils at CD1:

rawrite \..Pfad..\laptop

Under Linux use:

dd if=/..Pfad../laptop of=/dev/fd0 bs=8k

After the installation has been completed, replace the installed kernel, as described in the support-database article: "PCMCIA-IDE-Geräte werden nicht erkannt", http://sdb.suse.de/en/html/findeisen_pcmcia_ide_patch_64.html.


See also:
o PCMCIA: PCMCIA-IDE devices are not recognized (6.4)

Keywords: PCMCIA, IDE, CDROM, ATAPI

Categories: IDE

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