I figured this about 7.1.
When I tried to install 7.0, it said that Linux is not currently, fully able
to take advantage of udma66, but that it could make a boot disk to bypass
this problem. Well, it did and almost all went smooth from there.
The problems I noticed: 1) wouldn't detect my parallel port zip drive when
choosing new iomega driver in scsi section of install (always worked before
when I installed to hard drives on ide0 and ide1 with no udma66
controllers). 2) After installation at boot-up, I got the error message
that the kernel could not recognize /dev/hdg (hard drive on second ata/66
controller -> ide3) as valid block device. Do I just need to create
/dev/hdg?
I would like the url to the site you mentioned.
Thanks,
Bobby
----- Original Message -----
From: "ptah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] UDMA 66
>
> ----- 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.
>
>
> > When i installed 7.0, install said that linux does doesn't currently
> > fully support ata/66, but that it would make a boot disk,
>
> Just to let you know, 7.0 did allow you to install on your ata/66
> drive but it was *NOT* using ata/66 support. In order to do this,
> you need to get a patch, and get kernel 2.2.13 (2.2.14 has some
> known issues with ata/66 support). If you want to know how
> to enable this, let me know and I will give you a web page that
> is at home.
>
>
