On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Michael George wrote:
> I have a new system with RH7.0 and an ASUS A7Vmb. It seems that there are 4
> connectors for IDE drives - two for UDMA33/66 and two for DMA100.
Ok.
> Does that mean there are 2 ATA controllers on-board - each controls two
> connectors with each of 2 drives on them? Meaning that the hardware is
> already set up to handle up to 8 drives?
Yes, within reason.
> Or can one use either set of connectors, but not both?
You can use both.
> I've been working with Linux a long time, but I'm not much of a
> hardware-head... I already have the two ATA66 controllers used (one for the
> HDD, the other for the CD-ROM and Zip250). I might be interested in putting in
> an ATA100 drive, but I'm not positive how those other two connectors work...
>
> -Michael
I'm not really familiar with that board, but in general the first two ide
controllers are slower (and are the ones most likely to work out of
the box). Try putting your hard drive at hda, the CD at hdc and the ZIP at
hdd. Add new funky high spped drives to the second two ide controllers
(usually based on either the Promise or HighPoint chipsets) after you get
drivers for them (these drivers are not provided in Red Hat 7.0, but do
exist in the 2.4 kernel) If you are a sadist, you can do your install to
an ATA100 drive connected to hda, upgrade the kernel, create an initial
ramdisk with the needed driver, re-run lilo, move the drive to the ATA100
controller, cross you fingers and reboot. You may need to edit your boot
order in the bios in the process. At least you won't need to edit fstab if
you are using partition labels.
Chris Kloiber
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