I had a similar problem when ABIT released one of the first motherboards with the HighPoint UDMA 66 controllers. The issue is a kernel issue (at least it was with RedHat). What I had to do was recompile the kernel with the support for the UDMA controller. You need to find out what controller is on the board and see if MDK supports it in the default kernel. You may also have to change your grub/lilo settings to point to another /dev/hd* device.
Can anyone else think of any other suggestions? Shannon On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 18:38, Cleve Allison wrote: > Ok....here's the deal. > I have an Asus A7V motherboard. It runs a Duron 700 chip with the 100/200 > bus. > The way this motherboard was implemented is that there are two onboard IDE > controllers. > One is a 33/66 and the other is a 33/66/100, I think. > What happens is the upon booting up, it first looks at the ata66 > controllers...then scans the ata100 controllers. > I have had to plug my hd cables into the ata33/66 controller to actually > install the OS or OS's. > > So....last night I received my new WD 100 Gig HD with the 8mb buffer..pretty > sweet. > had to plug it into the slower ide controller to install first WinXP and then > MDK 9.0 > Everything is cool so far. Took everyones advice and I have a huge partition > that both OS's can see...its great. > > Here is the problem. When I moved the cables to the ata100 controller....and > rebooted....I can boot into WinXP fine...but I cannot boot into MDK9 > If I move the cables back to the ata66 controller then I can boot into either. > > So there must be something like the boot.ini file in Linux.......so I'm > guessing I need to edit it to do something different. > But if that is the case then why didn't I have to do the same for boot.ini > under WinXP? > > Or am I barking up the wrong tree altogether? I really want to use the > faster controller since my new harddrive was designed to make use of it. > > TIA for any help you can provide, > Cleve -- Shannon Roddy __________________________________________________________________ Systems Administrator California Institute of Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] LIGO Livingston Observatory ph: (225)686-3106 19100 LIGO Lane fx: (225)686-7189 Livingston, LA 70754 Web Page http://www.ligo-la.caltech.edu/~sroddy Calendar/Schedule See Home Page Wireless Email (255 Chars) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
