At 11:29 AM 5/29/00 +0530, you wrote:
>Hi Kedar,
Thanks a million,....it worked like a charm ....this is a good
writeup for FAQ.
Ivan
>Hi,
>
> > Recently, i had upgraded one PC with a new motherboard,Giga-byte
> > GA-BX2000+,this motherboard has ATA66 support ( there are four IDE socket
> > in the board,two for ATA-33 and two for ATA-66).The hard disk also support
> > ATA-66.
>
> From your description it seems that the ata-66 controller appears as
>tertiary and quaternary ide controller to the OS. Normally gnu/linux will
>only probe for primary and secondary ide controllers for HDD.
>
>Now this may or may not work in your case, but you can try this out it
>will most likely work. Boot with your boot-disk. Once the "root-disk" is
>loaded (from cd, hdd whatever), instead of proceeding with installation,
>switch to the command prompt on alternate console - ALT+F2 in RH, do your
>research for other distros. At the "#" prompt, type "cat /proc/pci". You
>should see a lot of data printed to the console, and in that you should
>find something on these lines -
Ivan Miranda GIE,QTO Electronic Lab
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