time for my 2 cents ...... I'm using 7.2 out of the box with an Abit
KT7-Raid (UDMA 100 or ATA100 if you like) and an IBM Deskstar 30Gig HD.
The chipset for the mother board is via and I haven't had any problems
Ron Stodden wrote:
>
> Pixel wrote:
> >
> > Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > I think it inescapable that 7.2 and Cooker (both tree (floppy images,
> > > etc) and isos) are reissued supporting ATA100 drives, since there are
> > > so many already in the market and 7.2 is the current Mandrake Linux.
> >
> > For the moment i don't care much, i'm using the old 7.2 boot kernel until the
> > 2.4 ramdisk bug is fixed. *Then* you will have (b)leading edge!
>
> I think the market might care!! People who have downloaded or bought
> Mandrake 7.2, only to discover it will not install on ATA100 drives!
>
> Well, it does mean that until then I am unable to make any ATA100
> Cooker install and test. I can fake a 7.2 install, as I explained.
>
> Would including the standard tertiary and quaternary IDE ports and
> interrupts in the kernel's IDE scan solve this? Is it as simple as
> this? Can this be done with lilo appends? Anybody know what the
> format is? And where it is documented?
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Ron. [au]
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