>
> Mark Wormgoor wrote:
> >
> > There is a bug in the Mandrake 8.0 installation.
> > The bug: the installation uses a 2.2 kernel, while 8.0 is on 2.4
> >
> > Why this matters:
> > I have an Asus P2BF with two onboard controllers and a Promise Ultra 100
> > with the second onboard disabled.
> > With 2.2 it's like this:
> > onboard 1: hda, hdb
> > promise 1: hde, hdf
> > promise 2: hdg, hdh
> >
> > With 2.4 it's like this:
> > onboard 1: hda, hdb
> > promise 1: hdc, hdd
> > promise 2: hde, hdf
>
> This is very interesting, thanks! Ever since Promise appeared it
> has become obvious that Linux has to get away from absolute drive
> location naming and only name (hd?) devices in the order in which
> they are actually encountered, like Windows does. It seems that 2.4
> kernel does this. Good!
>
I see you never have experienced the adding a harddrive syndrome. Absolute pads are
way easier.
What happens when you add an other drive on the onboard controller?
> > This results in a kernel panic on first boot. Need to boot using root=
> > and edit lilo.conf and fstab manually.
> >
> > Second problem with the Promise Ultra 100 is that it needs
> > ide3=noautotune (which has my cd-rom on it). Otherwise, it results in
> > read errors on the cdrom and segmentation faults in rpm installations.
>
> You should shift your cdrom to the mobo secondary IDE and enable the
> secondary IDE in the BIOS. Promise does not include cdroms as
> permitted devices on IDE3 or IDE4. This would solve your other
> problems as well.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Ron. [au]
>
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