Thanks for the info and suggestions. Here's where I'm at now.
Last night, I flashed up to the RU BIOS. I considered trying the QQ
beta, but I think I'm pushing my luck enough with all the development
code that this poor computer runs every day. Development BIOS code just
scares me :-)
I finally determined a workable solution for moving all of the data on
my ata33 drive to the ata66, and have done so.
And for whatever it's worth, I've been running 2.4.0-test9 for several
weeks, and I did compile in some things for ATA support, such as
"generic pci bus-master dma support," "use pci dma by default when
available," and "HPT366 chipset support." Are there other things that I
need to set up as well?
On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, Robert Davies wrote:
> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 11:09:12 -0000
> To: "Discussion List for Linux on Abit Motherboards"
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> From: "Robert Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Is anyone booting with an ATA66 drive under
> Linux?
>
>
> > 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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