> : > > >PS, I just thought of something: perhaps I must make sure mboard is not > >using ATA66 during installation? I now remember seeing something about > >that. I'll post this anyway, but I'll check on that. > > That is true, what I know. There is a kernel patch available for ATA66, > but you can only apply that (of course) after installing things. The > patch you can find while searching http://mandrakeuser.org That is not true. You can have your hard drive(s)connected to your ATA/66 controller and then do the install. All you need to do is pass the ide address to the distribution on install; boot: IDE2=0xca00, 0xadd (something along those lines) cat /proc/pci to get that information. With Mandrake since you are not dropped to a root prompt before install (came from Slackware), all you need to do is get a slackware boot disk or cdrom and once at that boot prompt type cat /proc/pci to get the IDE2 and IDE3 information, so you can have use your hard drive connected to the ATA/66 controller. There might be some otherway to get this information, but since I had my slackware cdrom sitting around, I just used it. After the install, I downloaded 2.2.13 kernel (since there are issues with that patch and the 2.2.14 kernel), ran the patch, configured/compiled kernel and that was that. ATA/66 enabled.
