Comment 6 for bug 289604

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Olof Staffans (olof-staffans) wrote : Re: [Bug 289604] [NEW] Kernels 2.6.24 and newer cannot find ide hard disk

I have now solved this problem by upgrading to intrepid ibix. The new
intrepid kernels have no problems reading the ide disk.

Olof Staffans wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> I have a computer with two hard disks, one ide, and one sata, with many
> partitions and different kernels. Windows XP runs fine (from an ide
> partition). I have two active kubuntu partions, one i386, the other
> amd64. Starting from kernels 2.6.24 kubuntu has not been able to
> properly mount the ide hard disk, which makes it impossible to boot the
> amd64 kernel (it is on a partition of the ide disk). I can start the
> i386 with the newer kernel, but then it mounts only those partitions
> that are on the sata disk.
>
> Kernels 2.6.22-14 and below have no problems on either partition.
>
> I suppose that I should dig up data on the motherboard etc, or is this
> data supplied automatically? (This is my first bug report.)
>
> ** Affects: apport
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>