On Thursday, September 26, 2002, at 06:37 PM, Ron Stodden wrote:
[...] >> They are in the Mandrake-old tree and everything back to >> 7.2 is in that tree. carroll.cac.psu.edu carries Mandrake-old as do a >> number of other sites. Do a search for Mandrake-old on google. >> I have no idea what you mean about ATA 100+ drives. I've got an 8.1 >> box >> with an ATA 133 drive in it. Granted the box is running the 8.2 >> kernel. >> But if that's the case then 8.2 should work fine for those people. > > Try and install 8.2 on a system with no hard drives on IDE0 and IDE1. > I'm not talking about ATA level as a problem. Many motherboards do > not support beyond ATA66 on IDE0 and IDE1. The non-support of IDE2 > and IDE3 in the 8.2 installer was my subject. Been there, done that, worked on a every machine. In fact, a snippet from dmesg on my primary workstation: hda: IDE DVD-ROM 16X, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdb: 24X10X40 CD-RW, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hde: Maxtor 53073H6, ATA DISK drive hdf: Maxtor 54098H8, ATA DISK drive hdg: ST380021A, ATA DISK drive hdh: Maxtor 91728D8, ATA DISK drive Wow... look at that. root is /dev/hde1, an ATA100 drive on a Promise ATA100 controller. Please, if you're going to give information, give it accurately. I don't recall if 8.1 worked like this or not, but I know for absolutely certainty that 8.2 did. In fact, my wife's machine, currently running 8.2, also has /dev/hde as the primary drive. I've, since, added a drive as /dev/hdc, but that was about a month ago... 5 months after 8.2 was installed. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ "lynx - source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD: 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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