Is there a way to find out what address I should use? Also, when I tried
the boot option, it says ide2 is an invalid option.
And here a little more information on the controller:
Manufacturer: Promise Technology, Inc.
Model number: Ultra66
Controller type: Bus master Ultra ATA/66 drive controller
Board controller type: PCI
- Yifan
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Steve Philp wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> Steve Philp
> Network Administrator
> Advance Packaging Corporation
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>
