"Krishna Donepudi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello everyone,
>
> This is my first post. Anyway, I downloaded and burned the Mandrake 7.1Beta
> ISO yesterday. But I was not able to install because I have a Promise
> Ultra66 UDMA card in my system. The announcement for 7.1Beta mentioned
> UDMA66 support. What exactly is this support? Is this only for the actual
> UDMA66 transfers or does this also apply to auto-detecting UDMA cards?
in fact, what is wanted is enabling to use hd[e-h] drives. Not really udma
support.
could you look at the log on console 3.
you should see "HPT|Ultra66: found ide2=..."
> I believe the first two are for the primary port (ide2) and the second two
> are for secondary (ide3). My HD is hooked up to ide2. I have tried various
> kernel parameters such as ide2=0xd400,0xd802 without success.
ide is in module. If you want to try it by hand, switch to console 2 and try:
modprobe ide-mod 'options="ide2=0xd400,0xd802"'
please tell more! thanks, Pixel.
