On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 22:12:15 +0100, Jon wrote:

>Hmmmm - gotta think about where I go next.
>Seems to be something special about this controller & this drive in
>combination that upsets Mandrake. Although I know that the combination
>will work cos Win2000 installs OK there...
>Time to think some more.

Next idea was to download the boot CD for version 9b4, just in case
anything's changed.
Same hang in same place :-(

Only options I can think of at the moment are:
a) go pester the kernel team
b) look at the pci-ide code myself
c) buy an IDE controller card
d) throw Mandrake away & go back to Win2000

I doubt there's much point me trying (a) and I'm not sure I'd know
what I was looking for in (b).

I think I might try this cheap ATA133 card:
http://www.ivmm.com/eio/products_ap1680.html
it says all the right things:
 - supports up to 137Gb
 - Linux support
 - coexists with onboard controller

It's worth �20 to not have to resort to option (d), but if it fails...
*sigh*

Can someone point me at a list of boot-time options that I can pass to
the ide module? I'm wondering if there might be anything useful in
there.

Thanks

Jon


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