Re: getting dma66 support in kernel
Try searching round for Andre Hedrick's IDE kernel patch for ATA-66 and
ATA-100.
IIRC he's got an IDE web site too, which will probably provide a
downloadable version, if you can't find the patch used for the udma66
options in potato.
Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric G . Miller" <egm2@jps.net>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 6:38 AM
Subject: Re: getting dma66 support in kernel
> On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 12:02:33AM -0400, Dave Bresson wrote:
> >
> >
> > so i used to be running the 2.2.17-ide kernel which came with potato,
but
> > have since took it upon myself to go with a homegrown kernel, one which
i
> > have configured and compiled myself. I downloaded the source to 2.2.16
> > and patched it to the latest 2.2.17pre19. I configured, and compiled it
> > using make-kpkg and installed it. However, to my dismay, when i
compiled
> > it i saw no real option for the dma66 support which i need (and yes, i
did
> > select to show the optional selections in make menuconfig) and so my
newly
> > compiled kernel does nothing for my dma66 controller on my motherboard.
> > Does anyone know how this support got into the kernel which comes with
> > potato? Is there an option i missed which comes with the regular source
> > from kernel.org, or is there some patch i have to go get to add this
> > capability? There must be something i'm missing. Anyway, thank you so
> > much for your time.
>
> There's and "idebus=xx" where xx is between 20 and 66 inclusive in
> 2.4.0-pre... If it's backported to 2.2.17preNN then it'll probably work
> by having an 'append="idebus=66"' in LILO or similar in GRUB. Check
> <linux>/Documentation/ide.txt for details (I don't have the current
> source myself).
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