Regarding the hpt66 udma66 controller on the bp6 motherboard:
When I installed Mandrake 7.0 on my dual celeron 550 bp6, the installer
recognized the hpt66 controller. Since I did not have any drives
attached to the controller, nothing was installed. Next week I have a
new 20GB deskstar arriving to connect to the hpt66 and I will pass on
the results here on this list. So, stayed tuned.
Tom
John Aldrich wrote:
>
> On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> > Yes udma/66. Promise controller. The other versions of linux I have
> > can't even be loaded because the don't see the hard drive. They were
> > talking about supporting it, but when you go to linux-mandrake site they
> > don't talk about IDE controllers in there supported hardware.
> >
> I can't SWEAR to it, but I *think* the Promise controller is
> supported. I'm pretty sure the on-board controller on the Abit
> motherboards is supported as well. You may find you need to install
> on the udma/33 controller, and switch to the udma/66 controller
> afterwards (and it may require a kernel recompile to add a patch for
> the Promise.)
> John
