ptah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bobby Dowling
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 5:34 PM
> Subject: [Cooker] Udma 66 Problems
>
> > I would like to install, but ...
> > I have 1 hard drive on each of two ata/66 controllers (ide 3 and ide 4).
> > I have my cdrom's on ide1 and ide2.
> > When I boot the 7.1 cd, it installed ata/66 drivers it seems, but when
> > it comes time to partition the drives, install says it
> > can't find any drives.
>
> I had/have the same problem. There is no way around this bug. I even
> tried passing the information to mandrake at the boot prompt
> boot: linux ide2=0xac400,0xb800 (or whatever your drive info is)
> and Mandrake 7.1 beta would not accept it. It was confirmed that it
> is a bug and there is no fix as of yet.
well, i've just find out what was wrong (in fact terribly wrong!) :
for cdrom ide installs, the insmod ide-* is done at stage1, whereas only stage2
analyses the pcitable and gives the good parameter, but too late :-(
as it seems, we're gonna release a new beta today with full u66 support, at
last!
thanks, cu Pixel.
