Ron, Why do you have to have a slower drive than ATA for booting? Are we talking new drives on older controllers or drives running on an ATA 66/100 controller?
Which brings up my particular interest ... do you know if Redhat 5.1 (kernel 2.034 could load on an ATA100 drive that was running on Dell Pentium III EIDE controller? I guess you are saying it couldn't ... ?
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