On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 05:24, A. A. wrote: > After doing some more reading and poking around, here's some more > information for anyone who can help, and who may be experiencing similar > problems: > > - the hard drive controller is an UDMA-capable controller, at speeds up to > 100 MB/sec burst rate at least. > - the chipset in the controller is known as the ICH3M (82801CAM), and as far > as I can tell...and I am NOT sure...this chipset had problems being > supported properly in kernel 2.4.19. Please correct me if I am wrong! > - the kernels 2.4.18 and 2.4.20 have apparently fixed this problem...? Not > sure. > - the hard drive is an IBM Travelstar 40GN 20GB ATA/100 2.5in 4200RPM Mobile > Hard Drive, so it too is capable of higher speeds > > > At any rate, I prepared a floppy installation disk with blank.img, and > copied the kernel that comes with Redhat 8.0 (2.4.18), and sure enough it > worked...after it booted up, I was able to see the Mandrake screen to begin > installing (choose language, etc.). The Redhat kernel did NOT identify the > IDE chipset correctly however, instead it identified it as a PIIX4 chipset > instead of ICH3M. Visiting Intel's web site confirmed that ICH3M is > backward compatible with PIIX4, the main difference of course being higher > speeds in ICH3M presumably. > > So...if anyone has anything further to add...that'd be great. However I'm > going to try and install with my cobbled Redhat/Mandrake installation floppy > and Mandrake CD's, then deal with the resulting system later (perhaps it > won't boot properly because the kernel that Mandrake uses is buggy with > ICH3M, but I'm hoping I can boot using the floppy and then build a new > 2.4.20 kernel with stable ICH3M support in it...). > > Hey, if you think this is all wrong, let me know, k? >
It's not too hard to download the kernel sources and recompile a kernel to your liking (or drivers)...if you decide to go this route, you can test the kernels by copying them to floppy - and when you find the one you like best, you can do a "make install" and then run lilo and have it as part of your lilo boot menu... -- Sun Dec 1 06:20:00 EST 2002 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. -------------------------------- | __ __ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | ;"""/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU -------------------------------- Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn Scully's voiceover at end: Addendum to case report. After his death, a diary was found along Gerald Schnauz's belongings written in the second person and apparently intended as an open letter to his father. It includes the names of his victims, the women he desired to save. My name is contained in the last entry. I have no further explanation for the existence of the photographs, nor am I confident one is forthcoming. My captivity forced me to understand and even empathize with Gerry Schnauz. My survival depended on it. I see now the value of such insight, for truly to pursue monsters we must understand them, we must venture into their minds. Only in doing so do we risk letting them venture into ours. "The X-Files: Unruhe"
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