Introduction

This page describes how to debug issue with IDE harddrives, CDROM and DVD drives.

Chances are that if you have newer hardware and are running a newer distribution, you are using the ata_piix module.

Debugging procedure

• On power on, press 'Escape' to get the Grub boot menu
• Add the following kernel command line parameters at the end

{{{break=top, modprobe ata_generic all_generic_ide=1 }}}

Also see:

• DebuggingProcedures

CategoryBugSquad