Try searching round for Andre Hedrick's IDE kernel patch for ATA-66 and ATA-100.
IIRC he's got an IDE web site too, which will probably provide a downloadable version, if you can't find the patch used for the udma66 options in potato. Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric G . Miller" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 6:38 AM Subject: Re: getting dma66 support in kernel > On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 12:02:33AM -0400, Dave Bresson wrote: > > > > > > so i used to be running the 2.2.17-ide kernel which came with potato, but > > have since took it upon myself to go with a homegrown kernel, one which i > > have configured and compiled myself. I downloaded the source to 2.2.16 > > and patched it to the latest 2.2.17pre19. I configured, and compiled it > > using make-kpkg and installed it. However, to my dismay, when i compiled > > it i saw no real option for the dma66 support which i need (and yes, i did > > select to show the optional selections in make menuconfig) and so my newly > > compiled kernel does nothing for my dma66 controller on my motherboard. > > Does anyone know how this support got into the kernel which comes with > > potato? Is there an option i missed which comes with the regular source > > from kernel.org, or is there some patch i have to go get to add this > > capability? There must be something i'm missing. Anyway, thank you so > > much for your time. > > There's and "idebus=xx" where xx is between 20 and 66 inclusive in > 2.4.0-pre... If it's backported to 2.2.17preNN then it'll probably work > by having an 'append="idebus=66"' in LILO or similar in GRUB. Check > <linux>/Documentation/ide.txt for details (I don't have the current > source myself).
