Stephan Ruehle wrote:

I have acard 6260 working with SuSE7.1 PPC installation with Kernel 2.4.2. Linux detect the Acard as an IDE Controller ->hdx. All my attempts to get this card working with newer kernels failed. :-(

i've gotten this answer: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Many thanks for your enquiry to SuSE Installation Support. You wrote:

ANFRAGE: While trying to format the EIDE HDD attached to Sonnet ATA66 PCI card installation program reports "No Hardrive Found"

PowerPC Edition 7.1 on a PowerMac 7200/90, 320 MB RAM, 4 MB VRAM, 2MB L2Cache, 40GB Seagate EIDE: ST340810A, stock SCSI CD-ROM drive and fdd

This IDE Controller is not supported by the standard kernels included in SuSE PowerPC Edition 7.1. However, you can try to upgrade to the newest kernel version. You can find it on our ftp server under: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/BETA/kernel/deflt In order to acces this ide controller the following features in the kernel configuration need to be enabled: AEC62XX chipset support CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AEC62XX This driver adds up to 4 more EIDE devices sharing a single interrupt. This add-on card is a bootable PCI UDMA controller. In order to get this card to initialize correctly in some cases, you should say Y here, and preferably also to "Use DMA by default when available". The ATP850U/UF is an UltraDMA 33 chipset base. The ATP860 is an UltraDMA 66 chipset base. The ATP860M(acintosh) version is an UltraDMA 66 chipset base. Please read the comments at the top of drivers/ide/aec62xx.c If you say Y here, then say Y to "Use DMA by default when available" as well. AEC62XX Tuning support CONFIG_AEC62XX_TUNING Please read the comments at the top of drivers/ide/aec62xx.c If unsure, say N. You can check this after booting with the new kernel in the file: /proc/config.gz If they are not enabled, you need to enable them in the kernel configuration after doing a make cloneconfig and to recompile the kernel. Please note, that there is no free support for self-compiling a kernel. If you have problems with that you may consider using our business software support services. You will find more information about that under: http://www.suse.com/us/solutions/bizsupp/index.html Best regards Your SuSE Support-Team Thomas Saupe (support@suse.de) ------------------------------------------------------------ SuSE GmbH, Tel: +49-421-5262300 Mo-Fr 13-18.00 Schanzaeckerstr. 10, Fax: +49-421-5262350 90443 Nuernberg, Email: support@suse.de Germany WWW: http://support.suse.de/ -----------------------------------------------------------