the ATA100 channel on the A7V is reported in windows as a SCSI device.
It has to load its own BIOS at boot time in order to function and I do
not know if the linux kernel can successfully talk with an ATA100 BIOS
yet. My won't boot if I move HD1 to the ATA100 controller which is a
bummer because even ATA66 drives get a huge performace gain from being
on that controller.
Obviously I haven't tested it in linux yet but in wandows on my ata66
controller my ata 66 drive gets burst trasnfer to about 48MBs and
sustained around 28-32MBs. On the ATA100 controller it gets burst of
around 65-70MBs and sustained around 50.
I've been told that the 2.4 kernel addresses ata100 but I hear that the
2.4 kernel addresses everything that doesn't currently work in linux so
I'm starting to be a bit skeptical since I'm using 2.4.0 from mandrake
7.2b3 right now.
Abe
"Kelly, Christopher" wrote:
>
> I had this same problem a few weeks ago. Try plugging the HD into a regular
> IDE channel. For some reason Linux doesn't seem to like the ATA/100.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sebastien (vezinse) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 1:23 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] Installation problem
>
> I have the Linux Mandrake7.1 installation CD. The installation starts but it
> keeps telling me «DO YOU HAVE ANY SCSI DEVICE ?» and I don't have one. I say
> no but it keeps asking me that question. impossible to go any further. I
> have on my Asus A7V motherboard a «Promise ULTRA DMA/100» chip. My harddrive
> is connected to the ATA100 connector on the mainboard. I think maybe that's
> what he takes for a SCSI device. What can I do ??? I don't know linux at
> all. But I can't even get to installation step1. I need help or need to know
> where to get some...
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