G Shaw wrote:
> Okay, I spent yesterday jumping through hoops, and finally got things to fit
> together so that they work not too badly.
>
> M/B: ASUS A7V/KT133
> Issue: Linux Mandrake Doesn't Undertand the Promise ATA/100 on the M/B
>
> Here's the procedure I used:
>
> ***** NOTE: This procedure ASSUMES that you attach the disk to the primary
> UATA/100 device
>
> 1) Disconnect the UATA/100 Win2K disk
> 2) Attach the new disk to the IDE controller
> {NOT the UATA 100 controller - there are 2 sets of disk controller
> ports on the M/B)
> 3) Drop the Mandrake 7.2 CD into the CD/R drive.
> 4) Boot the system from CD
> 5) Do a bare bones install of Mandrake {don't even bother with X)
> 6) After the install is done, log in as root
> 7) Execute the following command: % cat /proc/pci
> 8) Somewhere in there, you will get a piece of output that has 5 hex
> addresses listed. These should be the I/O range for the UATA/100 controller.
> In my case the first two were 0x9000 and 0x8800.
> 9) Record those numbers.
> 10) Shut down
> 11) Disconnect the drive from the IDE controller and hook it to the UATA
> controller.
> 12) Reconfigure the BIOS to boot from CD first rather than HDD.
> 13) Boot the box up - when the first Mandrake screen comes up, press 'F1' to
> get into the alternate boot screen.
> 14) At the command prompt provided, type in 'linux ide2=0xyyyyy,0xzzzzz'
> computing y and z as: high start address from step 8, and z as the second
> start address + 2. On my box this turned out to be ide2=0x9000,0x8802.
> 15) At this point, everything should be happy, and you can go ahead with a
> full install.
> 16) When you get to configuring GRUB, use the same numbers you used in step
> 14.
>
> I haven't yet tried patching the kernel - that's next. But this was enough to
> get moving forward.
>
> Glenn
>
> skidley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 17 Nov 2000, G Shaw wrote:
>
> > I am attempting to install LM 7.2 on a "clean" system {e.g. raw,
> unformatted
> > disk} and seem to be encountering a nasty little problem related to the
> > Promise Ultra ATA 100 controller on my system.
> >
> > System:
> >
> > M/B: ASUS A7V KT133 w/Promise UATA 100 controller
> > CPU: 900 Mhz Athlon
> > Memory: 256Mb
> >
> > Disk 20Gb Quantum (I think?)
> >
> > I know when I installed Win2K on a separate disk, I had to provide W2K with
> a
> > disk containing new drivers to that the W2K install could talk to the
> Promise
> > Ultra ATA 100 controller.
> >
> > Having searched through newsgroups and the Mandrake site, I have found
> several
> > other people claiming to have made this work, but no-one has ever clearly
> > documented the procedure they used.
> >
> > If you have actually succeeded in installing LM 7.2 on an ASUS A7V using
> the
> > Ultra ATA 100 disk controller, could you please let me know what the
> procedure
> > was you used?
> >
> > Thx,
> >
> > Glenn
> >
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> I haven't installed one but I am getting one and I have researched it a
> bit and there is a way to do it although I've been told that 7.2 has the
> kernel patch for the card. Here's a URL for the HowTo which describes a
> little trick you may need to
> do: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Ultra-DMA-5.html#ss5.2 You can get
> the latest ide patch(if ya even need it) at
> ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick .
> --
> Chad Y.
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