Hello Linux folkz, Yesterday at work I was installing SuSE 7.0 on Athlon socket 7 ABIT MB based PCs. What I noticed that on these boards were two pair of connectors: Primary and secondary ATA/100 and primary and secondary IDE/66. These motherboards have an additional BIOS ATA/100 which recognizes devices connected to ATA/100 connectors. When I tried to install Linux on these computers, setup couldn't find hard drives connected to ATA/100 connectors even previously installed Win NT worked with the same HD configurations. Only after I switched hard drives to EIDE/66 connectors I successfully completed Linux installation. Could somebody clarify me if Linux can't work with ATA/100 devices or there is another way to make Linux to work with ATA/100 devices. Thank you in advance for any suggestions. Alex -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
I think the latest 2.4.0pre kernels will support ATA100 (experimentally!!) Alex Daniloff wrote:
Hello Linux folkz, Yesterday at work I was installing SuSE 7.0 on Athlon socket 7 ABIT MB based PCs. What I noticed that on these boards were two pair of connectors: Primary and secondary ATA/100 and primary and secondary IDE/66. These motherboards have an additional BIOS ATA/100 which recognizes devices connected to ATA/100 connectors. When I tried to install Linux on these computers, setup couldn't find hard drives connected to ATA/100 connectors even previously installed Win NT worked with the same HD configurations. Only after I switched hard drives to EIDE/66 connectors I successfully completed Linux installation. Could somebody clarify me if Linux can't work with ATA/100 devices or there is another way to make Linux to work with ATA/100 devices. Thank you in advance for any suggestions. Alex
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Alex Daniloff wrote:
Hello Linux folkz, Yesterday at work I was installing SuSE 7.0 on Athlon socket 7 ABIT MB based PCs. What I noticed that on these boards were two pair of connectors: Primary and secondary ATA/100 and primary and secondary IDE/66. These motherboards have an additional BIOS ATA/100 which recognizes devices connected to ATA/100 connectors. When I tried to install Linux on these computers, setup couldn't find hard drives connected to ATA/100 connectors even previously installed Win NT worked with the same HD configurations. Only after I switched hard drives to EIDE/66 connectors I successfully completed Linux installation. Could somebody clarify me if Linux can't work with ATA/100 devices or there is another way to make Linux to work with ATA/100 devices. Thank you in advance for any suggestions. Alex
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Hello Alex , I found a solution. Boot from SuSE 7.0 cdrom. Default Yast2 will be start.Press <Abort installation> button and and after this on the screen will apear the Yast1. Go to <System information> button and choose <PCI>.There you will find something like this ( my case ) : Bus 0, device 17, function 0: Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology Unknown device (rev 2). Vendor id=105a. Device id=d30. Medium devsel. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0x8800 [0x8801]. (a) I/O at 0x8400 [0x8401]. (b) I/O at 0x8000 [0x8001]. (c) I/O at 0x7800 [0x7801]. (d) I/O at 0x7400 [0x7401]. (e) Than you can reboot the system again and the pass to the LILO prompt this information : "ide2=a,b+2 ide3=c,d+2" as a command line parameter to the kernel. If you have just one HDD then pass just the line with ide2. The kernel will see the HDD like 'hde'. Than you can acces this drive. You can read more about this in HOWTO section of the SuSE documentation in UltraDMA mini howto. Crosby. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
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