UDMA-66 is an after thought for the version of the kernel that comes with Mandrake 7.0
even when it asked you had to boot from a floppy. To get it right, you need to
upgrade to 2.3.99-pre9-2. 9-1 crashed my ABIT BP6 hard. 9-2 appears fairly stable.
It also solved some problems with my sound card. As I said above I have a BP6, some
things I learned from the Kernel Mailing list is that the BP6 implementation of th
HPT366 controller leaves a lot to be desired. I can say pretty assuradly that many
Maxtor hard-drives have problems with it. Also I have had a few problems with my
Maxtor when I over-clock so be carefull with that. The 2.3.99-pre9.2 is a nice kernel
either way and would upgrade to it if I were you. It will detect your HPT366
controller on bootup. I currently don't have a UDMA66 drive so I don't know how good
it works.
If you want to upgrade let me know and I can walk you through the steps. It isn't as
scary as people make it out to be.
John
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Garron Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 21:32:35 -0700
>I was under the impression that Mandrake 7.1 beta was supposed to support
>UDMA-66. My Abit BP6 motherboard w/ onboard HPT-366 doesnt even show up
>during the install. At least in mandrake 7.0 it told me that i would have to
>make a boot disk to install on a udma-66 drive. Can someone help me?
>
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