Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
>
> On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Yifan Yu wrote:
>
> > Hi, when I tried to install Mandrake 6.1, it cannot detect any harddrive.
> >
> > I have a 27.3 GB Ultra ATA with ATA 66 controller card.
> > Is this problem due to this type of HD being to new or something and is
> > not supported yet?
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
>
> You need to tell the kernel the is a 3rd and 4th ide controller, because
> the ide patches were not applyed they were causeing problems with cdrom
> drives.
>
> at the boot prompt enter
> linux ide2=0xd800
> or
> linux ide2=0xa800
>
> (sorry i thought these were generaly the same, but i've done some checking
> looking for what i thought was the address for a chip other than the
> HPT366, but it was the same card with several different addresses :/ )
Be careful on those addresses! Those don't match what I've got here...
I've got ide2=0xd800,0xdc02,11
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Steve Philp
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