I've just purchased Fujitsu 66 and loaded to it with no problems (emailing from
it now with kmail). Only running it with normal UDMA33 setup.
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> > Hey all...
> >
> > Totally new to the Linux thing, but not new to the Unix thing. Though
> > familiar with Unix, I have never had to install it, and being totally new to
> > Linux, have no clue why I am having problems.
> >
> > I'm running a Abit BE6 motherboard, Celeron500, 128MB, 13GB Quantum fireball
> > UltraATA66, Guillemot 3D Prophet video (Nvidia GeForce256), and all the
> > other usual goodies... Monster sound, etc...
> >
> > My main partition is, of course, this Win98 partition from which I am
> > mailing... I have over 3GB of unpartitioned space on this same HD to which I
> > am attempting to install Mandrake.
> >
> > I have followed the Installation instructions to the letter, though I think
> > I have narrowed my problems down to the fact that my HD is UltraATA66...
> >
> Hmm...are you using the Ultra66 controller or the standard
> controller? There was something in the list last week about
> getting Linux to see the ata66 hard drive, although I don't
> think they discussed trying to do a fresh install on it.
> John
