Re: Ultra ATA Hard Drives
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 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 mode is supported. For built-in promise IDE and UDMA support, use
> a developmental kernel such as 2.1.90.
>
>
>
> On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, John Paul Lorenti wrote:
>
>> 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, the drive won't boot into win95 and it fails linux's
>> bad block scan when trying to create linux partitions.
>>
>> Is it possible to set up Linux on an Ultra ATA hard drive at this point?
>> If so, can you point me to some details on how? I tried Deja News, but
>> the messages seemed inconclusive.
>>
>> Thank you for your time,
>>
>> John Paul
>>
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