Thanks for answering,
But how will I know which one is normal IDE.At present I am not using any
RAID facility provided by KT-7 RAID. And even in this case  installation
doesnot recognizes any mass storage device, It prompts me to insert any
device driver diskette, and because linux is providing a patch not a device
driver so it doesnot even accepts that.
Do I need to recompile the Kernel, because the patch is actually a .c file.
Thanks
Shail Sharma
----- Original Message -----
From: "Herbert Graf" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] ATA/100 Not Supported by Linux


> > I am in a big problem. I have a AMD ThunderBird 1GHz , on ABIT KT-7
> > motherboard.The motherboard has inbuilt ATA/100 controller from HotRod.
> > HotRod gave drivers for Windows2000, NT and 98. But this controller is
not
> > supported by RedHat Linux. It doesn't recognizes the harddisk,
> > when i go for
> > installing linux it says no storage device  found, and asks me to supply
a
> > DeviceDriver Diskette.
> > On the otherhand, HotRod doesn't completely abandons Linux, it
> > says download
> > some Patch from http://www.linux-ide.org/ and that should fix
> > this problem.
> > Can Any one suggest me what to do with this patch. I have downloaded the
> > Patch. its a file with .bz extension. But linux installation doesn't
like
> > the disk with this patch also.
> > Patch name is ide.2.2.16.20000630.patch.bz2
>
>         Linux is not for the tame hearted, even the latest RH builds can
have
> "issues" that make it "interesting" to install. You have reached this
case!
> :( First off, do you have "normal" IDE channels on that board? If so move
> the HD to those channels and install Red Hat, it should go OK. Now, you
must
> install the patch. From what you've written it looks like they are simply
> supplying a kernel patch. To "unzip" it try gunzip. Usually they supply
> pretty good tutorials on how to install stuff like that, check with the
> website again.
>         As an alternative you could try using the latest Beta of Red Hat.
If the
> system is "just for fun" goto www.redhat.com and download the beta. It
comes
> with kernel 2.4 and has been updated for ATA100 drives and controllers.
>         The main issue is getting it installed, once you've got it
installed adding
> patches becomes much easier. Hope this helped. TTYL
>
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