All 4 channels on my primary IDE adatpter are used. I can get both my HP Colorado 5 Gig drive (which is the only device on the card) and promise Ultra 33 pci card to work as a secondary channel. That is, the linux (2.2.15) kernel correctly finds the IDE adapter and the compiled in IDE driver finds the HP tape drive and it all works ok. Howver, the Ultra 33 (apparently) is no longer available (or at lease from no dealer I can find). And, I have two other computers I wish to connect IDE drives to (but no ultra 33 adapters for them). And, also I am not satisfied with using this adaptor (ultra 33) because it is not designed for tape drives and hence tries to probe for onlly devices it knows about for a minute before it times out on each bootup - extreamly annoying. Modern cards do not seem to have this problem When I relplace the ulta 33 with ANY modern PCI adapter (I have trided at least 3 different brands including the promise Ultra 66), although they all work with DOS and Windows 98, linux does not see any of them (and consequently the HP tape drive is not seen either by its driver). That is, nothing in messages or /proc. Any help (perhaps I need some parameters [IRQ and/port] to my loadlin boot line or perhapts I need to be given a pointer to some secondary IDE driver) will be greatly appreciated. Thanks (in advance). Floyd,
