RE: HPT366 & DMA mode

[Tom Livingston]

Robert wrote:
> Situation: My motherboad is a BE6 from Soft Switch.  It features 4 IDE
> connectors.  IDE 1 & 2 were detected at install time and are running
> with a CDrom drive and 3 HDs.  IDE 3 & 4 use the Ultra ATA/66 IDE chip
> set.  I have been unable to get IDE3 or 4 to work.

You need the ide patches for your kernel.  Take a look in
ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ for the correct
one.  After applying the patch to your kernel, you'll have hpt-266 drivers
instead of the slow generic ones, and auto-dma.

Tom