I've been through the archives and I know that this subject has been beat to death, but I have an issue with getting my HPT366 controller on a Abit BE6 motherboard to boot my Quantam 18.2 gb hardrive.
 
This is the message that I have posted on several news groups, can anyone PLEASE tell me what the heck I am doing wrong ?!?!?!?!?
 
I am trying to get Mandrake 7 (linux kernel 2.2.14) to boot off a drive connected to the HPT366 controller on my Abit BE6 motherboard. I have gone over the instructions that are availible on http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b6506063/hpt366/ several times now, and I can get it to ALMOST work.  The lilo will come up, the kernel will start to load, the HPT drivers seem to recognize the drive, then it freezes.  In order to demonstrate how far the kernel boots, I have copied this messages file from http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b6506063/hpt366/messages and have indicated below where my system comes to a halt. (Of course there are other differences, but it should illustrate my point).

To Recap:
My current configuration is:
-Abit BE6 motherboard with a built in HPT366 controll
-18.2 GB Quantum Fireball KA
-The disk is partioned like so:
      1: 2 gb fat 32.
      2: 4 gb fat 32
      3: 16mb ext2 (/boot, this is within the first 1024 cylenders)
      4: 3.8 gb ext2 (/)
      5: 256 swap
      6: 2gb fat 16
      7: 4gb fat 16
-128mb ram
-OS - Linux Mandrake 7
-Kernel 2.2.14, fresh from the source.
-I have tried the three latest IDE patches from Hendrick.
-Lilo looks like it's configured properly (boot=/dev/hde,Disk=/dev/hde, bios=0x80,root=/dev/hde7)
-The system will boot fine with the kernel not compiled with the IDE patch and using the backward compatibility features of  the controller.
-Sad part is the controller works great with WINDOWS 98!


***********SAMPLE MESSAGE FILE************
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Software Watchdog Timer: 0.05, timer margin: 60 sec
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.9)
apm: disabled - APM is not SMP safe.
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
.
... no scsi controllers installed
.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 40k freed
Adding Swap: 377520k swap-space (priority -1)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.20
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 98
HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
HPT366: reg5ah=0x01 ATA-66 Cable Port0
    ide2: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 99
HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
HPT366: reg5ah=0x01 ATA-66 Cable Port1
    ide3: BM-DMA at 0xec00-0xec07, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
hda: CR-4802TE, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdc: FUJITSU MCC3064AP, ATAPI OPTICAL drive
hdd: Conner Peripherals 420MB - CFS420A, ATA DISK drive
hde: IBM-DJNA-370910, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ide2 at 0xd800-0xd807,0xdc02 on irq 18

****** The system comes to a halt right here **********

I don't think there is much more I can add....

ANYONE HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS ?

Thanks,
David Stringer



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