Shail, the easiest way to work around the problem is this:

Install your hard drive on the non-ATA100 controller on the KT-7.  Then
install Linux.  Once you've done that, download the newest Linux kernel,
probably 2.4.1 or 2.4.2 from http://www.kernel.org.  Install the kernel and
be sure to configure it to use the correct HighPoint controller.  Once
you've done that, install the kernel into LILO, make sure that the system
boots with it, then move the hard drive to the ATA100 controller.  It should
work.

I think that I've probably simplified this somewhat...you'll need to make
the appropriate adjustments in your BIOS to control where the system boots
from, and so forth.

Good luck!

Drew Dunn
The NOSPIN Group

-----Original Message-----
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Shail Sharma
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 3:55 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [PCBUILD] ATA/100 Not Supported by Linux


Hi all,
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

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