[ale] ata 100 and RH 7.0

[Chris Ricker]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Chris Egolf wrote:

<snip>

> http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b6506063/hpt366/
>
> Basically, you'll have to start the install, and when you get to the
> GUI, press ALT-F2 to get to a shell console.  Then, 'cat /proc/pci |
> less' to find the I/O addresses of the device.  Then reboot and when you
> get to the text-based startup screen to begin the install, instead of
> pressing enter, you'll have to type something like "linux
> ide2=0xb000,0xb402" for example.
>
> The one thing I always forget is that until you patch the kernel, you
> still won't have the support, so you'll have to do this each time.
> After to do this to boot the new OS the first time, edit your
> /etc/lilo.conf and add an 'append="ide2=0xblah,blah+2"' to each stanza,
> and rerun lilo.

A much easier method is to use boot disks which have been modified to
include Andre Hedrick's patches for ATA66/100 controllers in the RH kernel.
You can find unofficial ones at

<http://sweb.uky.edu/~mabran3/linux/misc/>

If you've purchased RH, you can harass their support and they'll send you
officially unofficial (ie, RH made it but we don't officially support it)
boot disks which are basically the same as the above....

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                               kaboom at gatech.edu
                                              chris.ricker at genetics.utah.edu

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