Probably to recognize your driver with a 2.2 kernel you have to use
the ide patch which recognizes many more cards than the regular
kernel. Also, if using DEbian you can use the ultra ata boot disk and
that may work out of the box. I am not a slackware expert,so I don't
have a clue about that distribution.
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John Covici
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