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[SLUG] Ultra DMA 66 & BE6 Mobo (fwd)
Oops, forgot to forward to the list for interests sake.
I have a BP6 Motherboard with the same UDMA controller as yours. At a
guess I'd say they're pretty similar. Here's how it works for me:-
The UDMA controller is an on-board PCI device. It's I/O ports can be
found by doing "cat /proc/pci" - This might work on the boot floppy.
EG
IDE3 is IRQ 12, IO at 0xd800, 0xdc00, 0xe000
IDE4 is IRQ 12, IO at 0xe400, 0xe800, 0xec00
You might also be able to get this from device manager in Win98.
*WARNING* this may change depending on other PCI cards inserted. OH
JOY!
Now my setup is such that I use IDE3 but not for my boot drive. I
strongly recommend putting an old drive on IDE 1 (drive C:) to boot
off and make that your /boot partition, and keep a "boot disk" as
generated by the install handy.
You'll need something like this added to /etc/lilo.conf
append="ide2=0xd800,0xdc02,12 ide3=0xe400,0xe802,12"
which from a boot floppy is written like
boot: linux ide2=0xd800,0xdc02,12 ide3=0xe400,0xe802,12
Thought: you might try tacking cdrom=/dev/hdc on the end (hdc is
primary drive on second IDE port).
That should do the trick. The pain for me was every time I
inserted/removed another PCI card I'd have to boot into single user
mode:
boot: linux single
cat /proc/pci
vi /etc/lilo.conf (and change the port address & IRQ's)
/sbin/lilo
reboot
How you'd do this if it was your boot drive is starting to make me
feel ill.
End of my comments
---<GRiP>---
> 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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