[SLUG] RE:

["Lane, Richard M" <richard.lane@nospam.eds.com>]

The HPT-366 interface, which is what Abit uses for DMA-66 is "sort of"
supported. Disks running at 66 can be mounted, but can't be the boot 
disk, and also require the "unified-ide" kernel patches.

The short answer is: DMA-66 is proprietary, not fully backwards
compatible, and each vendor uses a different standard. Linus thinks
it sucks, I wouldn't expect good support any time soon.

Re CD-RW: It should just show up as an Atapi CD-ROM. I a very
similar Ricoh model and it works fine including booting from CD.
Your install problems will be due to ATA-66 interface.

Re Win98 claiming you have SCSI: ABOSOLUTELY ANY interface
that ISN'T IDE shows up as SCSI in EvilWare 9x. Microsoft's test
for SCSI is: If (NOT IDE) then it must be SCSI. Parallel port drives
show up as SCSI as well.

Put an ATA-33 drive in the machine, it's the only way to get it
to work well with Linux.

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Richard Lane,	Unix Specialist	#include <disclaimer.h>
EDS Australia - Software Services Asia Pacific
EDS Email:	<Richard.Lane@nospam.eds.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	albert hon [SMTP:honalbert@nospam.hotmail.com]
> Sent:	Monday, January 31, 2000 5:47 PM
> To:	slug@nospam.slug.org.au
> Subject:	
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I've recently purchased a new system running windows 98 and was trying to
> install Red Hat Linux 6.1 over the weekend. Having some trouble getting
> Linux install to recognise my hardware.
> 
> Here's what I've got:
> - Pentium III 500 system with 128M RAM
> - 19G HDD (IBM 372050) running Ultra DMA 66 with ABIT's BE6 motherboard
> 	Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus master IDE controller
> 	Adaptec SCSI driver: HPT 366 Ultra DMA controller (I don't have a
> SCSI card, but that's what's loaded in win98 to enable Ultra 66 capability
> with Hard drive ... I think)
> - CD-R/RW drive (RICOH RW7060A)
> - Have Linux Red Hat 6.1 on CD from a friend who downloaded it from the
> internet
> 
> How far I've got:
> - tried boot from CD, but can't ... the CD Rewriter I've got probably
> don't
> support this (I tried booting my windows 98 CD and had no luck)
> - so I've created floppy boot disk from the Linux install CD, and booted
> the
> PC off it
> - went through some peripherals selections like Keyboard, mouse ...
> - when I came to dialog where you specify the type of install => I choose
> "Custom install"
> - it reported an error and could not proceed (I didn't drop this down, but
> it did not point to any devices, it just mentioned "hardware")
> - try this again in expert mode ... and got to a prompt to put in driver
> disks, and DOS driver disks I've got obviously didn't work
> - seems that Linux don't recognise or don't have drivers for my
> CD-Rewriter
> and my hard drive (or the Ultra 66 bit anyway)
> 
> My questions are:
> Has anybody had success in getting Linux to recognise CD-Rewriters during
> install ?
> Does Linux support Ultra66 ?
> Can anybody suggest a way to make the install work an configure the rest
> later ?
> 
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Looking forward to any responses,
> Albert.
> 
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