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Re: Promise Ultra 66



On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 21:32:35 -0800, Brian Lavender wrote:
> but it just flashes the characters
> 
> 2FA:

That's from the Master Boot Record program. 

> I also tried booting with a floppy with IDE support, but it won't
> detect it either.

The bootfloppies for Slink don't handle UDMA66. You need to use bootfloppies
with a kernel on them that's patched for UDMA66 support (using the IDE
patches from ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/). I'm not sure
if potato's bootfloppies (will) support UDMA66.

HTH,
Ray
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