ATA100 support in kernel 2.4.2

[sincka]

Alright I've looked everywhere and can't find support for the ATA100 IDE Hard Drives. Anyone? Btw... kernel 2.4.2

[ 08 April 2001: Message edited by: sincka ]

[Tigger]

ATA100 support was available as a patch for the 2.2.X series but is included in the 2.4.X series.

It is actually the IDE chipset you are looking for.

The promise controller,either external or on board is referred to as PDC202XX in the kernel config.

mandrakeuser.org or something like that has some more details on the config.

I'm running the latest snapshot of the development slack 7.2 which uses kernel 2.2.19 and has been patched with ata100 support.

The first drive on the controller is usually /dev/hde cause it is the 3rd and 4th IDE controller on the system.

You may also need to pass the controller addresses to the kernel to get it to work as follows:

'vmlinuz ide2=0xb800,0xb402 ide3=0xb000,0xa802' would be the case for an external promise ultra 100 card. The onboard ones are at a different address. Mandrake User has all this info and more.

Good Luck!