Now you guys tell me that my shiny new ATA 100 drive (that I haven't even installed yet) is not going to work in Linux. Does anybody know whether a newer kernel is out that will recognize it? Or if there's a patch, or something? I.e., is there a work-around that doesn't require me to fiddle with the drive or its settings? At 08:20 AM 08/23/2000 -0600, you wrote: >On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 08:45:27 -0500, you wrote: > >>I tried to install Linux MDK 7.1 on a Gateway 2000 with a 900 MHz >>Athlon. The Bios version for the Gateway is 0AA SNP05. At boot up time >>the message from the Hard Disk is: >> IBM DTLA-307045 Ultra DMA5 >> >>BTW, this is a 45 GB drive. During the installation process everything >>goes fine until its time to set up the partitions then I get a message >>stating that there are no valid hard drives in my machine. I've >>installed MDK 7.1 on computers having UDMA Harddrives and assus >>motherboards having UDMA 66 hardware built in and everything works >>fine. So I'm surprised things don't work on the Gatewaye 2000. >> >>I've tried changing BIOS settings but nothing seemed to work. I'm also >>unsure exactly what UDMA 5 is. Has anybody seen this before? Also we >>tried installing windoze 2k and had basically the same problem. >>However, windoze 98 installs and works fine. Since win 2k and linux are >>BIOSless OS's and win 98 uses hardware BIOSes I'm guessing this is a >>BIOS issue with the harddrive but I don't know what to do besides change >>to a different harddrive. >> >>Does anybody have any suggestions? > >UDMA 5 is ATA/100. You need to reset the drive to UDMA 4 (ATA/66), >which usually is done through the drive manufacturer's proprietary >software. Or perhaps you have a setting in the bios to make UDMA 4 the >default. > >Steve >Stephen B. Browne >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
