Re: Ultra ATA Hard Drives

1998-03-24 Thread John Paul Lorenti
Yes, the Ultra-DMA mini how-to available at the address below in text format and at http://www-scf.usc.edu/~vibber/linux/Ultra-DMA.html in html seems to have all the information I will need. Thanks a lot. I'll post a success report when I get everything working. John Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wro

Re: Ultra ATA Hard Drives

1998-03-24 Thread servis
You could also look at the Ultra-DMA mini-HOWTO, it address the Promise card. http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Ultra-DMA Brian On 23 Mar, Steve Hsieh wrote: > > Yes, it is possible, but not without some work. If you want to use a > stable kernel, you need to rebuild a 2.0.33 ke

Re: Ultra ATA Hard Drives

1998-03-24 Thread Steve Hsieh
Yes, it is possible, but not without some work. If you want to use a stable kernel, you need to rebuild a 2.0.33 kernel with the promise_ide patch in order to recognize the promise ultra ide card. Patch can be found at http://www.huwig.de/linux/mama/20-newdriver.html. But even then, only DMA mo

Ultra ATA Hard Drives

1998-03-24 Thread John Paul Lorenti
I'm trying to install Debian on a friend's computer. She has a Gateway G6-233 with a Promise Ultra ATA harddrive controller card and a Western Digital Caviar UATA-IDE 4GB . The installer doesn't pick up the hard drive at all if it is connected to the Promise board. When connected to the motherboard