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RE: [SLUG] Ultra DMA 66 & BE6 Mobo (fwd)
Re how'd you do it if was your boot drive? You don't.
Also move your CD-RW OFF the DMA-66 interfaces onto
one of the normal IDE interfaces, if it isn't there already.
Booting off your CD-RW, if the CD-RW is on DMA-66 will
be problematic at best. It probably won't work at all.
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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: Grant Parnell [SMTP:gripz@nospam.linuxfreak.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 1:54 PM
> To: slug@nospam.slug.org.au
> Cc: albert hon
> Subject: [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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