I'll search the Mandrakesoft website and see if it supports the controller. It is a Promise controller. Mandrakes hardware devices list shows that it is there but they may not fully support it. Thanks for the info....now to start digging for the info. Cleve
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 20:04, Shannon Roddy wrote: > 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] > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
