Hello Bruce,
Did you happen to buy the Abit BP6 dual-celeron motherboard? I just bought
one myself, but have not installed it yet on my Linux box. It has the
ATA33/66 channels too. Did you get anywhere with yours yet?
Thanks,
Jon
On 21 Mar 2000, "Bruce Bauer" wrote:
> Date: 21 Mar 2000 15:03:06 -0000
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: "Bruce Bauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Catch 22 for Linux and ATA66?
>
> 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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