Yeh you need a special IDE cable, though if your motherboard supports UDMA mode 4 or 5 it *should* already come with one (or more). it's got finer cables than a normal 40w IDE cables, and usually colour coded black, gray, blue for IDE master, slave, motherboard.
On 17 Jun 2001 17:00:57 +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > On Sunday 17 June 2001 15:58, Aquila wrote: > > > You might want to enable the kernel options > > > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI > > CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI > > CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA > > > > Then have a look at your motherboard manual to figure out which specific > > IDE controller chipset you have, and enable special support for that. > > There is support for most chipsets, and it usually auto detects UDMA > > support if you have the right chipset support compiled. Make sure you > > are using an 80w IDE cable as well, you need that for UDMA(66). > > > > You might need the append="idebus=66 ide0=ata66" line in you lilo.conf > > (assuming you use lilo and your hdd is on ide0) if it doesn't auto > > detect. > > > > Hope that helps. > > > > Aq. > > > Another note: > When i start my BIOS says: Primary IDE: No 80 consuctor cable installed. > I guess thats it, isn't it... do i have to buy a seperate one? > > > cheers, > Raffaele > -- > Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For encrypted Mail get my Public Key from "search.keyserver.net" > ID is: 0xEC4950E9 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- --------------------------------------- e-mail: aquila at hypox dot org website: http://aquila.hypox.org geek code: GCS d- s+:--- a-- C++++ ULS++>++++ P+++ L+++>++++$ E--- W++ N+ o? K? w---- O- M-- V-- PS---@ PE--@ Y? PGP- t 5 X- R tv+ b+ DI-- D+ G++ e(++) h! r* y ---------------------------------------
