Subject: ATA-100, UDMA100, LILO I recently built a computer using the ASUS A7V motherboard, AMD 800, and an "IBM Deskstar DTLA-307030 30GB UA100" hard drive. I wanted to install Debian GNU/Linux on my hard drive (it uses the Promise ATA-100 controller).
1) Upon reading the Debian Mail archives I surmised that the ATA-100 was not supported by the UDMA66 diskette install option from the ftp archiives. ( I also tried it!) 2) I installed using the UDMA66 diskettes and CDROM binaries from linux labs using my via udma66 controller ( I was later to find out to my dismay that the system uses hda, hdb, hdc, and hdd for the via controller and hde, hdf, hdg, and hdh for the promise ATA-100 controller). 3) I applied the patches from www.linux-ide.org to a linux-2.4.0-test6 kernel source from www.kernel.org and compiled my "new" kernel. 4.) When I booted on my custom kernel to my dismay I saw all devices operable however, my promise ATA-100 contoller was using hde. As far as I know there is no way to change this so. 5.) I hoped I could simply edit my lilo.conf file run liloconfig and voila!.....No way! Since device hde did not exist at that time ( I was using hda, hdb) this coiuld not be. 6.) After many hours of strife ( and realizing that linux-2.4.0-test6 has the drivers in it for ATA-100) I decided to install a 2 GB maxtor on hda, put the custom kernel on it, and now Debian sees my hda, hdb (CDROM) and hde. 7.) I will now have to adjust my lilo.conf to boot windows 98 (hde1). There must be a better way to do this, someone please tell me .
