ata100.i kernel

[enzo250gto]

One of my HDs is ATA100 which linux was not seeing. I tried to reinstall and when the prompt came up that allowed me to enter extra parameters which looked like "boot:" It said enter for default but I added ata100.i for the support. It found my drive and it added it to my fstab. After install it tells you to reboot so I did. On boot I got this:
/sbin/e2fsck: No such device while trying to open /dev/hde1 (null):
the superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2

Then it gives me the option to continue by hitting control-d or typing in root password to correct the error. What could I have done wrong? Is there a way to make sure the ata100.i is in the new kernel.

[bdg1983]

Could you tell us what distro and version you are using?

Have you tried your distros support site to see if they have anything on this? What needs to be added to the bootloader to allow booting from a ata100 drive?

[enzo250gto]

The distro is Slackware and I've looked for support on there site with no luck. There CD has a number of files that end in .i to load at startup. I used ata100.i instead of base.i The problem seems to be after the very first boot using ata100.i Slackware during install reverts to base.i(2.2.19 kernel)so when I reboot this kernel does not see the ATA100 drives and gives me fstab and /sbin errors.