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= 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 =

== Temporary ==
 * On power on, press 'Escape' to get the Grub boot menu
 * Add the following kernel command line parameters at the end
{{{
break=top, modprobe ide_generic all_generic_ide=1
}}}
 * To do this press ''e'' to edit then go down to kernel and press ''e'' again. When done adding press ''ESC'' to go back and then ''b'' to boot with this option.
== Permanent ==
To make this persistent you can edit the grub config file as root such as gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

= Caveats =

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