OK, so at least I know I'm not totally wasting my time. I have a Abit BE6-II I have a UMDA66 Quantum Fireball KA series HD (9GB) The hard drive is on the umda66 controller (master only) The intel controller(s) are turned off in bios and vacant Works fine in [cough] Windoze I'm sure I have that silly umda66 cable connected correctly The two kernels I'm playing with: tock SuSE 6.3 (2.2.13) umda66 patched 2.2.14 Both kernels act the same, the following is without HTP66 support in the kernel and boots fine albeit pio mode only. Boot off board controllers first doesn't seem to change anything. udma66 channel 0 is always id'ed as ide0 (probably because I have the intel controllers off in bios). I am not using HDParm (anymore). Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.20 PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX4: device not capable of full native PCI mode PIIX4: device disabled (BIOS) HPT366: onboard version of chipset, pin1=1 pin2=2 HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 98 HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 99 HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe400-0xe407, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLP KA9.1, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0xd000-0xd007,0xd402 on irq 15 hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLP KA9.1, 8809MB w/371kB Cache, CHS=17898/16/63 LVM version 0.8i by Heinz Mauelshagen (02/10/1999) lvm -- Driver successfully initialized --snip-- Now if I add HPT66 support in the kernel, I freeze during boot: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.20 PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX4: device not capable of full native PCI mode PIIX4: device disabled (BIOS) HPT366: onboard version of chipset, pin1=1 pin2=2 HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 98 HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 99 HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe400-0xe407, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLP KA9.1, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0xd000-0xd007,0xd402 on irq 15 --FREEZES HERE-- Now the bus/drive is in DMA mode but it seems the kernel can't determine the physical characteristics of the HD, any suggestions are VERY appreciated...... Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: "BobF" To: "Timothy Metz" Cc: Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 5:56 AM Subject: Re: [SLE] udma66 on Abit boards

On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, you wrote:

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Is anyone booting an udma66 HD on the udma66 controller of an Abit motherboard?

Yes. Using a WD 20gigdrive on it.

Bob F

EMail FBob@wt.net

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