Could you tell us, step by step, how you did this?
Thank You
Paul Gratz wrote:
> Hey all,
> I just wanted to follow up and tell how I got it to work. Its kind of
> cheating but I downloaded the Gentus distribution and stole the kernel that
> comes with it and put it in my mandrake 7.1. I'm now getting about 6 times the
> performance out of my UDMA66 drive. The kernel doesn't have the USB module and
> it looks like kheader doesn't work but otherwise everything else seems to work
> fine.
> Paul
>
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> > >> > Hi all,
> > >> > I hope this doesn't cover too well trod ground but I couldn't find any
> > >> > good answer to it in the archives. I recently decided to switch to Mandrake
> > >> > from Red hat when 7.1 came out. One of the statements I saw sent around about
>it
> > >> > was that it natively supported the HPT366 UDMA66 interface that is part of the
> > >> > BP6 motherboard. Mandrake does successfully work and install on a drive that
> > >> > is on that bus but the performance I'm getting is horrible, worse than the
> > >> > drives I have on the BX chip set's native IDE interface.
> > [snip]
> >
> > If you were to put this to Abit, they would first ask you whether you
> > are using the special UDMA66 drive cables. It can make a big
> > difference.
> >
> > Steve
> > Stephen B. Browne
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
