HD now okay but no CDROM

[Georgina]

Hi

Well this looks similar to my problems when I upgraded my motherboard to the 
I-Will KK266 Plus R.  I had to get a sighted person to install Slackware 8 
using the ata100 disk image.  To install Debian, I had to install by using a 
custom built 2.2.18 kernel.  Using an IDE patch from the kernel archive.  I 
feel that you'll find the necessary support in the 2.4.* series as there are 
the American Megtrends stuff for this board and I've seen the Promise 
controllers too.  I'd suggest that you go into Windblows and read the listings 
in the device manager to see what controllers have been installed for the 
chipsets used on the board.  I'm sure that you'll be saved a lot more pain by 
establishing the chipsets and motherboard in this machine.

I'm happily using my CD Roms on /dev/hda-d and my hard disks on /dev/hde-h 
Although, I'm still working through these issues.  I've had trouble with 
installing lilo too as it couldn't see the mbr but this may be resolved now 
I'm using the 2.4.16 kernel.
Gena



>Hi people -
>
>We have continued to work on Londa's Slackware installation from
>time to time and have made some progress. The new HD is now
>correctly jumpered as a slave device, but in order to detect
>either the original HD or the new one we had to use the ata100.i
>bootdisk instead of bare.i, and the four devices now seem to use
>the letters 'e' through 'h' instead of 'a' through 'd'. The first
>four letters are no longer visible, which means our CDROM which
>was once reported at /dev/hdc is no longer visible.
>
>If anyone has found any shortcuts to work around this problem we
>would sure appreciate knowing about them. The system to which we
>are adding Linux is in heavy daily use since Londa moderates a
>couple of active discussion lists in the Windows environment, so
>we have only occasional access to the system.
>
>The ata100.i bootdisk is not just differently configured from
>bare.i, but it is a patched kernel, which will challenge us when
>it comes time to reconfigure or add further patches or upgrade.
>Does anyone know offhand whether the 2.4 kernel series supports
>UDMA or UATA more directly? This is the first time I have had to
>deal with a machine that has been so strongly optimized for
>Windows and we both have a lot to learn here.
>
>Thanks for any help... Chuck
>
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