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Ron Stodden wrote:
> Bad news - 9.1 Show-Stopper!
>

Yes, it's known, but it's too late now, this should have been caught in
RC (which implies the kernel *must* *not* change in RC).

> They have to be on IDE2 and IDE3 because they are ATA100 or above and
> IDE0 and IDE1 only support ATA66 and below.   Many motherboards operate
> this way.
>

And many of them work with 9.1

>
> The strong implication is that nobody in Mandrake development or QA uses
> ATA100 or up disk drives on IDE2 or 3 on this motherboard - true?


Bad assumption, no-one tested the final install kernel on your
motherboard. My GA-7DXR2 with a promise raid controller (using IDE)
worked just fine, installed on hde, hdg (either my DVD drive or CD-RW)
work well too.

Buchan

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