Steffen Barszus wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 2. April 2003 14:57 schrieb Buchan Milne: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> 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). > > Wrong assumption. This one was known long beta3, I guess a symptom of that > noone knew he has to advertise his bugs ;) > >> >> > 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 > > As I understood it is a PDC 202xx issue > > It was told me to have > # CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE > enabled would fix it. > >> >> > 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. > > But there seems to be an issue ... hmm don't care. I can only forward > informations of others on these topic ... i could maybe reach a list of > twenty people with the PDC202xx issue trough a guy from a webboard. A new > floppy image with a -BOOT kernel with the above option enabled should > clear thing , shouldn't it ? >
I think I have a fix to this problem... The idea I have works for me..., but since I dont have a PDC controller I can't verify it... I'll post it within the next couple of hours... Thomas
