ATA66 in Mandrake 7.2?

[kroke]

Can I install ANY build for that matter of Linux that supports ATA66? I have an old version of Gentus, but their site is down or something, can't get access to the new one ( www.gentus.com (http://www.gentus.com) )

Thanks all, I want to put an end to Windowz

[Mulchman MM]

ooo something I know!
I have ata 66 also, and it took me forever to get linux installed.

There's a NHF on this site for installing linux w/ the ata 66.
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/udma66.html

Ripped from the NHF:
"Note:
Sent in by: Kedar P.

You don't need to patch your hardware (third party controller from promise technologies), if you are running kernel 2.2.x. For 2.0.x I have no idea. I run 30 such boxes in our office, all of them identical, and using this Promise Technologies controller. All I had to do was give extra command line arguments to the kernel at boot time. To figure out the command line arguments, but with a linux boot/rescue floppy. When you reach the command prompt, do a
cat /proc/pci

You should see something like this in the output produced by this command, in addition to other junk.

Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology Unknown device (rev 1). Vendor id=105a. Device id=4d38.
Medium devsel. IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=64.
I/O at 0x1400 [0x1401].
I/O at 0x10f4 [0x10f5].
I/O at 0x10f8 [0x10f9].
I/O at 0x10f0 [0x10f1].
I/O at 0x1080 [0x1081].

Now Note down the values on those lines beginning with I/O, call them a, b, c, d (which in my case are 0x1400, 0x10f4, 0x10f8, 0x10f0). Ignore "e" (0x1080).

Then give the following command line argument to your kernel on the "lilo" prompt.

lilo: linux ide2=a,b+2 ide3=c,d+2

Which in my case is:
lilo: linux ide2=0x1400,0x10f6 ide3=0x10f8,0x10f2

You should see the drive through linux after that. To avoid having to type that command line arguments to kernel everytime, you can configure lilo to automatically do this for you. Just consult lilo doc about "append" option. "

[kroke]

Great news. I installed the newest Linux Mandrake 7.2 with NO problems with ATA 66. This is living proof because I'm using it RIGHT NOW. Suhweeeeeeeeeeet!

[lynch]

MDK 7.2 is the 1st ver. to default to 32-bit I/O and enable DMA on your hdd.Any ver. before that is defaulted to 16-bit and no DMA.To change this, use hdparm as root but read the man page first.Its full of dire warnings but will tell you how to set things up.
lynch

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