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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme
> Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 11:45 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Cooker] Very weak ATA100 support in Mandrake!
>
>
> OK let's begin by comparing apples to apples.
>
> Most IDE setups, including Promise, are correctly detected
> and set up by the
> installer and handled properly by the kernel. This includes
> ATA/100 or UDMA5.
>
> Some folks have more IDE channels than are autoprobed. Drive
> i on 7.2 will
> never be autodetected... It has to be configured after boot,
> because while
> major and minor numbers exist, it is not autoprobed (Run
> modprobe -c for
> yourself).
>
> Some folks have streaming problems on CD burning. I know
> this doesn't sound
> like the same problem, but it appears to be related to one or
> more of the
> problems I will categorize here.
>
> 1. ASUS A7V -- to detect the embedded Promise controller
> you have to boot
> the CD in rescue mode and
>
> lspci -vv | less
>
> and scroll through the output. The current advice on
> mandrakeuser.org is to
> do
>
> linux ide2=0xa000 0x9802
>
> (which sets the controller up to run drives e and f) and the
> 0xa000 and
> 0x9800 are the first of five hex numbers attached to the irq
> where the drives
> set up. It is done for ide2 because the oters are already
> assigned by
> autodetection and there is a need to keep things simple. Of
> course strings
> to the install kernel could reassign all the drives if
> desired. And the
> bootloader is a followup--the append strings must be given to
> LILO or Grub
> for transmission to the boot kernel.
I have an A7V which during installation hangs at Partition check: hde
Using lspci -vv | less I entered the correct params at boot
linux ide2=0x8400 0x802, ide3=0x7800 0x7402
Both ide2 and 3 are seen as sharing IRQ 10 and the the hds are properly
identified.
As noted above the installation then hangs at Partition check: hde:
Here are the system specs:
Duron 800
384MB pc133
ide0: CreativeCD5233E Master
NEC Zip 100 Slave
ide1: CreativeCD-RW RW8432E Master
ide2: Maxtor 45GB Master udma5
ide3: Maxtor 30GB Master udma5
IBM 15GB Slave udma5
If it would be of benefit I can try the installation using different drive
set-ups if you think it might eliminate the problem, and post back any
progress or lack there of which I might make.
Charles
