On 22 Mar 2002 19:43:28 +0000, you wrote: >On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 17:52, Noah Sombrero wrote: >> Potato had a special version for ide adpater cards. >> It looks like woody does not yet. I get about >> half way into the boot process and the woody >> kernel stops just about where it is recognizing >> the hard drives attached to the card. Looks ominous. >> Is woody going to support these cards? > >I have a HighPoint HPT366 ATA-66 disk controller which was supported by >the files in the udma66 directory, as detailed in the manual here: > >http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-file-descs > >If you go here, it tells you that Promise Ultra66 cards are supported - >I also believe that the drivers for the Ultra66 cards make the ATA100 >cards go, too. This is strictly anecdotal, though - YMMV.
That page is all about the potato distribution. No help for woody as far as I can see. I did not remove my old 2.2.19 kernel, so I am still able to boot off an old 2.2.19 floppy. Very nice feature. Is there a patch or something for 2.4.18? Gleason
