On Sunday 11 February 2001 23:41, 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?
Hi, Ron,
With the 7.1 distribution there was a mini-HOWTO that I can't find on the 7.2
distro: /usr/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/mini/Ultra-DMA.html. I found it a good read
at the time - it explained how to pass boot-time parameters to lilo.
As an example, I boot into 7.1 with 2.2.17-0.24mdk kernel, with this line in
lilo.conf:
append=" ide2=0xd800,0xdc02 ide3=0xe000,0xe402 "
where `cat /proc/pci` reports addresses of 0xd800,0xdc00,0xe000,0xe400 - the
trick is to add 2 to the second and fourth addresses.
However, with later kernels (2.2.17-21mdk onwards) this is no longer
necessary. I have an old Gigabyte GA-6BXE 440BX mobo with the Promise UDMA
100 card in a PCI slot and it works well, using the tertiary and quaternary
IDE ports. Only if I wanted to install an old OS like Caldera eDesktop 2.4
I'd have to plug the drives into the standard IDE ports for the duration of
the install.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
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