Hi guys, I have been off the list for a couple of months so apologies if this has been asked recently. 7.0 pro just arrived and I decided to liberate an Abit BP6 dual celeron mobo for the new machine. However, the second ide controller (an ata 66 interface) isn't getting automagically recognized. Does anyone know which module I have to load to get it correctly used. Currently it is reported as a mass storage controller of an unknown type and any HD's on it are in-correctly reported at about 8Gig. If I accept this reduction in size (HD's are 15+Gig) then install proceeds but hangs at seemingly random points later. Many thanks in advance for your help. Mark _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. -- 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
On Friday 27 October 2000 18:16, Mark Schaefer wrote:
Hi guys,
I have been off the list for a couple of months so apologies if this has been asked recently.
7.0 pro just arrived and I decided to liberate an Abit BP6 dual celeron mobo for the new machine.
However, the second ide controller (an ata 66 interface) isn't getting automagically recognized. Does anyone know which module I have to load to get it correctly used.
Currently it is reported as a mass storage controller of an unknown type and any HD's on it are in-correctly reported at about 8Gig. If I accept this reduction in size (HD's are 15+Gig) then install proceeds but hangs at seemingly random points later.
Hi, I think the ABIT board uses the Highpoint Technologies HPT 366 ATA 66 controller. The Abit site has a BIOS update for your MB which includes an update to the HPT 366 controller. My previous experience of the HPT366 was on an add-on PCI card which SuSE "automagically" (nice word that) picked up and installed. Suggest a search around the Abit site and the HPT site as I seem to remember some Linux specific downloads lurking. Unfortunately I cannot remeber the URL for HPT but Abit are at the obvious one. Stu -- 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
On 27 Oct 2000, at 19:18, Stewart Watson wrote:
7.0 pro just arrived and I decided to liberate an Abit BP6 dual celeron mobo for the new machine.
However, the second ide controller (an ata 66 interface) isn't getting automagically recognized. Does anyone know which module I have to load to get it correctly used.
To get it installed on 6.4, I used the EIDE boot disk. If you've already done this, try the following. When I built mine, the board had shipped with a BIOS that had known issues with Linux, and the hard drive I bought was flaky, so I learned all about the BP6. First, make sure everything is right with the controller and mobo. Make sure you've got the 'QQ" or "RU" BIOS. If not, download it and flash the BIOS. Also, make sure the BIOS is set up properly. Mine wasn't set up right out of the box. When you boot, make sure that all devices are detected properly when the controller is initialized at bootup. If not, check the setup on the controller. Oh, BTW, if you compile a Linus kernel for this board, make sure to add Andre Hedrick's EIDE patch. That's where the drivers live. Hope this helps, Dennis "Custard pies are a sort of esperanto: a universal language." --Noel Godin -- 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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