First of all: I know this is a known problem, but I've read and tried all the suggestions in mandrakeuser/docs/hardware, linhardware, and many usenet archives, and have found no working solution.
Only after that, I'm posting here. The System: - AMD Duron 750 - Asus A7V bios revision 1004 [09/21/2000-VIA-KT133-<A7V>] - IDE Interface: VT82C586 IDE (Apollo) [VIA Technologies, Bus Type: PCI] - HD Maxtor 51536H2 15Gb 2Mb 7.2krpm ATA100 - DVD CREATIVE DVD1241E - CDRW LITE-ON LTR-24202B - Linux Mandrake 8.1 download edition (3 cds) The Problem: - If the HD is connected as ATA66, the system installs and works wonderfully. - If the HD is connected as ATA100, the system hangs just after LILO, at the blue "multilanguage-welcome" screen. If I try a CD re-installation, the boot process fails to find hda saying: hda: IRQ probe failed 0xffffffff8 then identifies a Maxtor 51536H2 on hde, and hangs (kernel panic). Now, this is what I get executing lspci -vv|less: [...] 00:11.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc.: Unknown device 0d30 (rev 02) Subsystem: Promise Technology, Inc.: Unknown device 4d33 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10 Region 0: I/O ports at 9000 [size=8] Region 1: I/O ports at 8800 [size=4] Region 2: I/O ports at 8400 [size=8] Region 3: I/O ports at 8000 [size=4] Region 4: I/O ports at 7800 [size=64] Region 5: Memory at de800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: <available only to root> [...] Wich, according to this: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/hardware/hbits5.html led me to try the following, from a boot floppy: linux ide2=0x9000,0x8802 and even: linux ide2=0x9000,0x8802 ide3=0x8400,0x8002 but it didn't work. So, I don't know what to do now. You could say: can't you be content with ATA66, since it works on your system? No, I can't. I'm not a performance maniac: I just need expandability. I'll have to add more HDs to my system in the near future, and this risks to become a real problem. Anyone can help me? Please send replyes to my address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Thanks, Carlo Salinari
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