At 05:24 PM 10/29/00 -0700, Dan Harrington wrote:
>I need to know if anyone has successfully installed Redhat Linux 7.0 using
>an off-board
Used yes, installed no. Kernel 2.2.16 does not (normally) support UDMA 66
and 100 controllers. It's generally easy enough to find an older supported
controller, install with that, then patch your kernel with support for
newer controllers and use one of them. Alternately you can try the Rawhide
development distribution, which is not likely to be too stable, but comes
with the preview version of kernel 2.4 and hence should support most UDMA
controllers off-the-shelf.
>UDMA 66-or better controller. I have a Western Digital that is UDMA 66, and
>my motherboard
>doesn't support UDMA 66 drives.
So you should be fine, use the drive in PIO or multi-word DMA mode and
install away. If it works at all (and Western Digital drives generally do)
then it will work in a marginally older protocol. You probably won't even
notice much speed difference (since the drive itself is not likely to be
able to hit DMA mode 2 limits except when reading from its onboard cache).
> So far I have a Promise Ultra 66 and a
>Maxtor Ultra100
>and neither is recognized. The Promise 66 has beta drives for 6.2 but those
>lock up
>during the initial part of the install.
I have a Promise ATA-100 controller and a Via chipset with a UDMA 66
controller both working in RH 6.2 using kernel 2.2.17 patched with
Hedrick's unified ide patch and the e2compr (transparent compression)
patch. It seems happy.
The only problem I've encountered is a weird malfunction in software RAID,
which (assuming it's not specific to my system) is not likely to be an
issue as long as you only have one hdd (presumably if it takes you more
than a couple of months to need more hdd space then you will be able to use
full-blown kernel 2.4 with LVM instead of RAID anyway).
If you really want to, it's possible to rebuild the Redhat installation
set (either for cd or for a network based install) with a patched kernel,
but if you have access to a pre-UDMA controller then it's probably less
work to just use that when installing.
>Thanks
You're welcome. Hope this helps.
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