--- Pedro Rosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Reinhard Katzmann wrote:
> >
> > Hi Al!
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 02:23:29PM -0400, Al
> grantier wrote:
> > > I would like to load mandrake but cant get it to
> recognize my ultra 66 promise card anyone have any
> ideas
> >
> > Is this an IDE ATA/66 Card ? Then you're probably
> out of luck,
> > as ATA/66 is not yet supported and it seems to be
> getting complicated
> > according to the maintainer to the "large IDE
> patch".
> > Maybe it's still possible to get it run as an
> ATA/33 version but I
> > don't think thats what you're after.
> Well, not quite correct. The kernel 2.4.0-test6
> supports several
> ATA/33/66/100 chipsets and one of them is "Promise
> Ultra66 or PDC20262"
> (it means grab hackkernel and pray... >:) ).
> Beware. The stuff is relatively new and I had some
> troubles with ATA/66
> stuff not long ago. My chipset is a Triones
> Technologies's HPT366 and it
> went stable only in one of the last 2.3.X tarballs.
> So probably, among
> these drivers, there could be some features still
> "floating" around.
I have a Promise Ultra 66 card setup (in lilo) as ide0
and ide1; plus the mobo (PPro) controler as ide2 and
ide3.
I have this working with full ATA66 support and speed,
but the only kernel that works for me now is the
2.2.16 (from cooker of course) ... anything else, from
2.2.17 to 2.4.whatever hangs during the partition
check at boot time, after the following error:
hdc:hdc: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x60
hdc: timeout waiting for DMA
I have been complaining about this for a few months,
but apparently this is not a Mandrake specific
problem, but a kernel one ... but I am not certain,
since I haven't tried a plain vanilla kernel or a
package from another distro ...
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