Thanks for the info and the help.
If I do use an onboard ATA100 controller, is that supported in the standard potato release's kernel, without any changes?
At 06:22 AM 3/13/2002 -0800, you wrote:
Yes, though it was a little bit of a pain. The controller is supported in the ac series, but not yet in the main kernel (though I think it is in the 2.4.19 pre series). What I had to do to get it to work is: 1. Attach drive to motherboard IDE controller. 2. Install system, get kernel source, apply ac patches and compile and install new kernel using kpkg. Be sure to add the relevant new ide stuff; I think the right driver is the Promise 20269. 3. Add the "ide=reverse" flag to LILO if you plan to boot from the disks that will be attached to the controller. The kernel help says "ide-reverse", which is wrong and took me a few minutes to figure out. 4. Attach the drive to the new controller and reboot. Everything should then be fine, but you need to watch which controller on the card you're attached to (ide1 or ide2), otherwise you'll go from /dev/hda to /dev/hdc or vice-versa. If this happens, you can either switch the drive cable from ide1/2 to the other, or change your /etc/fstab. [Easiest is to make sure you are on ide1 (or ide2) on both the mobo and the card.] On a side note, unless you need the extra ide controllers for something like RAID, you might not want to do this -- I saw an analysis somewhere on the net that pointed out that the difference from ATA/100 to ATA/133 will be extremely small. Richard --- Matthew Daubenspeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am considering using a Promise ATA/133 drive > controller and some ATA/133 > drives. Is anyone currently using such a setup? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
