Success with HPT366 enhanced 2.2.1 disks

[Heikki Vatiainen <hessu@cs.tut.fi>]

Configuration:
  motherboard:
      Abit BE6
  memory:
      128MB
  cpu:
      Celeron 466MHz 
  UDMA controller (from dmesg):
      HPT366: onboard version of chipset, pin1=1 pin2=2
      PCI: HPT366: Fixing interrupt 11 pin 2 to ZERO 
      HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 98
      HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
      ide2: BM-DMA at 0xb800-0xb807, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio
  disks (from dmesg):
      hda: HITACHI DVD-ROM GD-2500, ATAPI CDROM drive
      hde: IBM-DJNA-352030, 19470MB w/1966kB Cache, CHS=39560/16/63, UDMA(66)
  network:
      3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker
              http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
      eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xac00,  00:10:5a:86:80:0c, IRQ 10
        8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
        MII transceiver found at address 24, status 786d.
        MII transceiver found at address 0, status 786d.
        Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
  kernel:
      compiled myself to get HPT366 supported
  partitions:
      hde1: /boot
      hde2: swap
      hde3: /
      hde5: unused

      Disk /dev/hde: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 39560 cylinders
      Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes

         Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
      /dev/hde1             1        10      5008+  83  Linux
      /dev/hde2            11       506    249984   82  Linux swap
      /dev/hde3   *       507     10194   4882752   83  Linux
      /dev/hde4         10195     39560  14800464    5  Extended
      /dev/hde5         10195     39560  14800432+  83  Linux


The installation with rescue and root disks went without any 
problems. I used three floppies to install the device driver, 
selected 3c59x for the 3c905b and installed the base system from a 
NFS server.

Booting from the hard disk directly did not succeed, probably 
because of UDMA disk. I had to use the boot floppy.

After the first reboot I skipped creating a non-root user, said Y
to remove the pcmcia package and skipped installing predefined
packages and exited immediately from dselect. When I logged in as
root, I discovered two problems:

1. The finnish keymap was not loaded, even though I chose it 
during the installation. I had to copy
/usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/fi-latin1.kmap.gz to /etc/kbd/
default.map.gz

2. pcmcia-cs package did not want to be purged. The package prerm 
script (pcmcia-cs.prerm) does /sbin/cardctl eject which fails with 
"no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices" aborting the package removal. 
After I commented out the offending line, the pcmcia-cs package 
was succesfully purged. The pcmcia-cs package version is 3.1.1-3. 

Besides these two problems, everything went well and I installed a 
couple of more packages (the dselect default selection) with 
success.

// Heikki
-- 
Heikki Vatiainen                  * hessu@cs.tut.fi
Tampere University of Technology  * Tampere, Finland



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