Just a guess here, but if the ATA66 driver is a module then you can use the expert
installation mode
and load the driver for it up front!
> Hi,
>
> Am I correct that there is a catch 22 for linux and ATA66 IDE
> connections on motherboards?.
>
> I recently purchased and ABIT board that has 2 ata33 ide connectors and
> 2 ata66 ide connectors.
>
> My hard drive is an ATA66 drive plugged into the ATA66 IDE connector.
>
> When I tried to install Linux the other day it didnt seem to recognize
> the ATA66 ide connector and therefore complained it could not find the
> hard drive.
>
> I understand that there are some kernel versions that recognize ATA66,
> but I am assuming the currently stock RH release does not have that yet.
>
> So this somehow would mean linux would have to be on the hard drive
> before a new kernel with ATA66 recognition could get installed.
>
> Am I correct? Is there a way around this catch 22?
>
>
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