Hello,
recently decided to get back into linux,work supplied system was ONLY w98, but
slapped together a new system for home, and pulled out the old mandrake 7.0, (have 7.2
here, but like 7.0 better for some reason) and started the install, but ran into a
problem, that I was hoping someone would be able to help me out with, or point me in
the right direction to start digging.
My system:
AMd 9000 tbird,
128 megs ram,rage fury pro video, on an Asus A7V133 motherboard with onboard promise
ATA 100 controller. (I think that's the trouble)
Both hard drives are on the ATA, a cd rom, and ls120 are on the standard IDE
controller, haven't realy had a chance to reconfigure to see if it will install when
the drives are on the normal controller, and I traded off the scuzzy drives a short
while ago so that's out, and the only thing on the 2930 is a cdr.
Should the drives be run ON the standard on-board controller? and if so what mods
would I have to make (kernel or system) to make it be able to access the drives on the
ata100? ,surprisingly windows has no trouble with it)
I am comfortable with linux, as far as operating and setting it up, I grew up on the
command line, so I'd be able to handle any configuration that needed done, but I don't
realy feel comfortable messing with the kernel, I've never had reason to do it before,
as the 'stock' kernels have always performed flawlessly for me.
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