(I tried posting this on the Linux/Unix forum, but got some "Invalid
forum" message.)

I have a computer that normally boots in Win98 that I wish to use with
SlimCD when serving music (mainly because Win98 chokes when piping
flac-wav-mp3 to my SB1).  I have three drives: the Win98 boot drive,
the music drive (200GB in two partitions) and a (Suse) Linux-formatted
drive.  The first is on a normal IDE connector, and the others are on
ATA-100 connectors.  Win98 sees the first two just fine; I think the
last is hidden because Windows doesn't recognize the Linux file system
on it.  I can't use the other IDE connector for the music drive because
it's too big for Win98.

The problem is that DSL can't access either of the drives on the
ATA-100 connectors.  The MB manufacturer (Gigabyte) offers "beta" Linux
drivers, but has no clue how to install them (when downloaded, the file
is a Windows executable, for some strange reason).

When I Google for "Promise ATA/100 Linux Drivers", I get the impression
that the 2.4 kernel should handle ATA/100 natively, and the DSL wiki
says that it uses 2.4.

Any suggestions?


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