Hard Drive Recovery Service?

[Matthew Gillen]

Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote:
> Now, what I want to know is if anyone here knows what the actual steps
> are that is happening during this phase of "Detecting IDE drives..."
> and if I can fool it somehow or force it to get past this snag.  Any
> ideas? 

You might also try passing various parameters to the kernel specified here:
http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/ide.txt

(noprobe, and specifying the geometry manually may be your best bets).

Matt

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