The HPT-366 interface, which is what Abit uses for DMA-66 is "sort of" supported. Disks running at 66 can be mounted, but can't be the boot disk, and also require the "unified-ide" kernel patches. The short answer is: DMA-66 is proprietary, not fully backwards compatible, and each vendor uses a different standard. Linus thinks it sucks, I wouldn't expect good support any time soon. Re CD-RW: It should just show up as an Atapi CD-ROM. I a very similar Ricoh model and it works fine including booting from CD. Your install problems will be due to ATA-66 interface. Re Win98 claiming you have SCSI: ABOSOLUTELY ANY interface that ISN'T IDE shows up as SCSI in EvilWare 9x. Microsoft's test for SCSI is: If (NOT IDE) then it must be SCSI. Parallel port drives show up as SCSI as well. Put an ATA-33 drive in the machine, it's the only way to get it to work well with Linux. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lane, Unix Specialist #include <disclaimer.h> EDS Australia - Software Services Asia Pacific EDS Email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -----Original Message----- > From: albert hon [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 5:47 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: > > Hi All, > > I've recently purchased a new system running windows 98 and was trying to > install Red Hat Linux 6.1 over the weekend. Having some trouble getting > Linux install to recognise my hardware. > > Here's what I've got: > - Pentium III 500 system with 128M RAM > - 19G HDD (IBM 372050) running Ultra DMA 66 with ABIT's BE6 motherboard > Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus master IDE controller > Adaptec SCSI driver: HPT 366 Ultra DMA controller (I don't have a > SCSI card, but that's what's loaded in win98 to enable Ultra 66 capability > with Hard drive ... I think) > - CD-R/RW drive (RICOH RW7060A) > - Have Linux Red Hat 6.1 on CD from a friend who downloaded it from the > internet > > How far I've got: > - tried boot from CD, but can't ... the CD Rewriter I've got probably > don't > support this (I tried booting my windows 98 CD and had no luck) > - so I've created floppy boot disk from the Linux install CD, and booted > the > PC off it > - went through some peripherals selections like Keyboard, mouse ... > - when I came to dialog where you specify the type of install => I choose > "Custom install" > - it reported an error and could not proceed (I didn't drop this down, but > it did not point to any devices, it just mentioned "hardware") > - try this again in expert mode ... and got to a prompt to put in driver > disks, and DOS driver disks I've got obviously didn't work > - seems that Linux don't recognise or don't have drivers for my > CD-Rewriter > and my hard drive (or the Ultra 66 bit anyway) > > My questions are: > Has anybody had success in getting Linux to recognise CD-Rewriters during > install ? > Does Linux support Ultra66 ? > Can anybody suggest a way to make the install work an configure the rest > later ? > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > Looking forward to any responses, > Albert. > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > unsubscribe in the text -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
