Re: [newbie] IDE drives

2000-10-10 Thread GAPrichard

Chris,
Sometimes there is a problem with older versions installing on dma66 
drives (I recall reading about Promise controller card issues).  7.1 
installed and runs on my WesternDigital dma66 drive just fine.  WD drives 
have the ability to switch to dma33 if one should run into problems; I 
presume other drives do also.  Linux hdparm optimizations [see newbie 
archives for discussion] worked better at the dma33 settings, so even having 
to stay at the lower drive setting isn't any sacrifice to Linux performance.  
(Your mileage may vary, of course.)
-Gary-

In a message dated 10/10/2000 7:33:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
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<< 
 Does anyone know if Linux MDK 7.1 supports Ultra DMA\66 IDE drives? I just
 got a new motherboard and I can't get my HDD with Linux on it to boot. Do I
 need to reinstall? Help!
 
 Thanks,
 Chris Kelly
 Registered Linux user 185775
  >>




RE: [newbie] IDE drives

2000-10-10 Thread Kelly, Christopher

That's what I was thinking, Rod. But I was hoping to not have to do that.
But, such is life.

As far as the settings go, all is the same and the motherboard is new. The
I/O address did change(I think). The only thing i noticed is that in the
boot sequence, Linux was looking for hde and it used to be hda. Go figure?

-Original Message-
From: Rod Baxter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 8:44 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] IDE drives


On mandrakes website, they advertise they support udma66 with 7.1. I dont
know which chipsets, but that what they say...

It should still boot. have you got the settings the same? LBA?  Have a look
at the cyl, hds, sectors to make sure the settings are the same on both
motherboards. And I have had the problem with some old motherboards that the
mappings were not compatible, which means a reinstall.
I dont know how far it will get into the boot, as most of your devices will
probably be at different I/O address and so on. The more I think about it I
believe you are up for a reinstall. Copy off all your config first, do the
upgrade, install and restore them.

Regards,Rod



- Original Message -
From: "Ruben Figal Calaforra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 10:29 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] IDE drives


> I don't know about v.7.1, but mine is a v.7.0 (previous release), and my
new
> Seagate SV2044D (20.4 Gb, IDE UDMA/66) is working flawlessly on an "old"
> Pentium 166 MHz.
> My BIOS did not see the whole disk (just about 8 Gb), and I was resigned
to
> living with an "amputated" HD, but then I installed Linux and it realised
the
> real capacity, I don't know how. I have feared to get into the BIOS ever
since.
>
> "Kelly, Christopher" wrote:
>
> > I thought that I posted this last night, but I never saw it come up on
the
> > list...
> >
> > Does anyone know if Linux MDK 7.1 supports Ultra DMA\66 IDE drives? I
just
> > got a new motherboard and I can't get my HDD with Linux on it to boot.
Do I
> > need to reinstall? Help!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chris Kelly
> > Registered Linux user 185775
>
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Re: [newbie] IDE drives

2000-10-10 Thread stephen

it works on a western digital 8.4 giga byte in udma 66 on a celeron 300
machine ok
stephen galowski

- Original Message -
From: "Kelly, Christopher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Newbie'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 9:22 PM
Subject: [newbie] IDE drives


> I thought that I posted this last night, but I never saw it come up on the
> list...
>
> Does anyone know if Linux MDK 7.1 supports Ultra DMA\66 IDE drives? I just
> got a new motherboard and I can't get my HDD with Linux on it to boot. Do
I
> need to reinstall? Help!
>
> Thanks,
> Chris Kelly
> Registered Linux user 185775
>
>
>


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[newbie] IDE drives

2000-10-10 Thread Kelly, Christopher

I thought that I posted this last night, but I never saw it come up on the
list...

Does anyone know if Linux MDK 7.1 supports Ultra DMA\66 IDE drives? I just
got a new motherboard and I can't get my HDD with Linux on it to boot. Do I
need to reinstall? Help!

Thanks,
Chris Kelly
Registered Linux user 185775