I would but the whole situation started because I have to be on the slower controller to install. For some reason, if everything is plugged into the ata100 controller the OS's won't install. Windows or Linux. Cleve
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 20:26, Brad Bendily wrote: > If you're really not concerned about information on your Mandrake install you > could move everything to the new controller and just try a reinstall. Although > recompiling a kernel is a great way to become familiar with many facets of > linux. But things are already complicated enough with the new linux setup, why > let a hardware issue affect your testing/playing with linux? > What I mean is if you do the reinstall and it doesn't work you can bet that a > kernel recompile might leave you high and dry, unless you can find the > specific > modules to compile into your kernel. I would suspect that somethink like the > controller you mention would be supported by the default kernel. Perhaps not > some of the SCSI interfaces, but surely the IDE interfaces. I'm not the expert > on what's supported in the kernel, this is just my best guess. > > Just a thought. > > -- > Brad Bendily - CNA > > > On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Cleve Allison wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
