[ale] install on a maxtor ata/100/20 gig disk

Ken Nagorski kenn at pcintelligent.com
Sun Jun 10 19:41:09 EDT 2001


Hi there,

	A little off subject, I have a P6SLA from Super Micro. It is a
little old but it should support the Maxtor 30gig drive I have (It was all
I could get) Yet it does not. I have thought about getting the add on card
however I wasn't sure about how these things worked under Linux.

	Does anyone have any suggestions. I am thinking that I am better
off getting a new motherboard? No? Yes?

Thank you
Ken



 On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, James Kinney wrote:

> RedHat 6.1 can't see an ATA100 disk. It needs a much newer kernel. 6.2
> with the 2.2.18 kernel is the best bet short of the RedHat 7.1.
> 
> Also, the ata100 card may still be a problem. It will depend on the
> chipset used. It wont show up as hda,b,c,d. It will show as hde (first
> drive, 3rd controller). If the card requires a windows software driver to
> be accessable, it will probably not work at all under Linux.
> 
> I've had good luck with on-board ata100 controllers but not add-on PCI
> cards.
> 
> On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Armsby John-G16665 wrote:
> 
> > my pc sees the maxtor disk (disk2) plugged into the ata card..  partition magic has split the maxtor disk into 10 and 10.  linux is on the first 10.  I formatted the the first  partition with ext2.  boot magic sees the disk.  Redhat 6.1 does not see the disk at all.  it sees disk1 plugged into the motherboard.
> >
> > I do not see a howto.
> >
> > what are my options??
> >
> >
> > John Armsby
> >
> > jaws at mindspring.com
> >
> 
> 

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