On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Yifan Yu wrote:
> Still having trouble with the drive. I don't have a install disk, I have
> a CD burned with the ISO image. I do remember reading somewhere about
> that the 2.2.x kernels still don't support ATA66 controllers yet, it's
> being worked on in 2.3, so won't come out till 2.4 or something like that?
> I mean, the kernel is probably detecting the EIDE controller that's on the
> motherboard which does not have any HD plugged into it. There's only one
> drive plugged into a Promise Tech ATA66 controller which is a PCI card.
> Any comments, suggestions....?
>
> - Yifan
Yeah same as the first time i said it ;)
just tell linux there are 3rd, and 4th ide chains and off ya go. Ata66 is
supposed tobe fully backward compliant, so it will pick them up as normal
ide.
> On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 23 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 07:50:03PM -0700, Yifan Yu wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > Do you already have Linux installed on this machine? You can find
> > > information about the controller in /proc/pci.
> > >
> > > If not, you _might_ be able to find the info in the Windows device manager
> > > under the resources tab.
> > >
> > > Mine also said that "ide2..." was an invalid option, but continued with the
> > > install (and did see the drive) despite the warning.
> > [snip]
> >
> > Load your install disk, change to tty2 then 'cat /proc/pci'
> > You will need the first i/o address for both ide2 and ide3.
> >
> >
>
>
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