> On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 06:40:33PM -0500, Owen B. Mehegan wrote:
> > I have an Abit BP6, and recently bought a new hard drive which is
> > capable of ata66 bus mastering. I would like to move my data from my
> > current ata33 drive over to the new one, and boot with that. My board
> > currently has the NJ bios installed, and the HPT controller bios
> > version is 1.21. Should I flash my bios(es) before attempting to boot
> > with my ata66 drive? Has anyone else had success doing this?
>
> I would suggest BIOS flash regardless.
You'll need to compile a kernel with Andre Hedrik's IDE patch for ATA-100 &
66.
Otherwise the HPT366 will not be recognised.
Unless your drive is a new, very fast one, you probably won't gain much with
ATA-66,
also some BP6 stability problems (reduced by the BIOS flash Hal recommends),
may also helped by using UDMA mode 2 (33) rather than mode 4, for 66.
I'd be quite interested to hear if you succeed, as I saw something in IIRC
the Debian release about booting off ATA-66/100 controllers not being
supported, YMMV.
The restrictions on the HPT366 and it's sharing interrupts with PCI slot 3,
are some of the things I've found irksome with the BP6. I'm currently
installing 1GHz Athlon / Asus A7V mobo's at work, with Promise controllers,
but I'm ignoring the Promise ATA-100 secondary IDE controllers. The need for
kernel patches creates too much work, when I need to react to security
advisories, which involve kernel updates.
Rob
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