Thanks Eric,
I will try this today, But it is not gonna be easy.
Shail Sharma
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Wertman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 5:41 PM
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
>
> If you check out the Ultra-DMA Howto, there are instructions for this case
> (I have the same problem with my HPT366 UDMA66 controller.). Basically,
you
> have to pass it hardware addresses to make it act like a standard ide
> controller.  When the initial boot prompt comes up from the install you
can
> type "Linux ide2=0xNNNN,0xNNNN ide3=0xNNNN,0xNNNN" and it will treat the
> controller as a standard ide one.  you'll have to get the numbers
yourself,
> you'll find the instructions in the HOWTO:
>
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Ultra-DMA.html
>
> basically, once you get the install started use ctrl-alt-F2 to get a
console
> and type
> "cat /proc/pci"
>
> use shift+pgup to look for the "unidentified mass storage controller" and
> get the addresses.
>
> after install you can patch and re-compile the kernel to support the highe
r
> transfer modes.
>
> HTH
>
> Eric Wertman
> >
>
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