Hello there, I just recently installed mandrake 7.2, and it doesn't work
if my onboard
hpt366 pci card is active in the bios
details
abit be6-2 with hpt366 udma on board
soundblaster live value
matrox g400 dual head
ide0 master: 20 gig quantum ( boot drive, with windowsME, win2k,
mandrake 7.2
ide0 slave: zip drive
ide1 master plextor 8x cdrw
ide1 slave panasonic dvd-cd rom
udma ( hpt 366 )
ide 2 30 gig udma66 quantum
ide 3 3 gig udma 33 quantum
all drives work ok in windows 2000, ME
The computer boots, and detects everything in linux, but when it gets to
the udma drives it stalls.
if I deactivate the hpt 366, then the system boots okay. This is one
workaround, but this means I can't use my bigger h/d with linux at all.
I tried reading the udma mini howto, and I've tried passing the values
into lilo via boot up, but this doesn't seem to help. Should this work?
There are messages upon bootup that the IRQ for the hpt is unresovlable
or something and it will check later . . . seems strange.
could it be
1)the pnp settings in the bios?
2)an unfortunate irq problem?
3)???
I don't see the crashing upon bootup mentioned anywhere in the howto
files, so I am not sure what is causing this. I would understand it
better if the drive wasn't recognized. but it seems to be recognized,
only the system crashes after that.
do I have to recompile the kernel for it to work? What would I have to
activate to make it work properly?
It seems that the hpt366 stuff is already active in the kernel, since
the device is recognized and all . . ..
Help!!
any input would be appreciated.
Stuart
