mandrake 7.0 + BP6 + ultra66 = trouble

[bdog]

I am trying to set up mandrake 7.0 on my bp6 machine with an ibm 7200rpm ata66 drive. I also have a scsi cdr. When trying to install it can't find my hard drive. Any ideas? I have flashed the latest nj bios.

[BillyB]

Do you mean its not listed in the BIOS? Also, did you get the newest UDMA66 drivers? I recently flashed to the NJ BIOS and couldn't boot to my UDMA66 drive which was operating perfectly before the flash. As it turned out, I also needed the new driver. It worked perfectly after that.


[This message has been edited by BillyB (edited 02-05-2000).]

[bdog]

It is listed in bios, and windows works works fine on this machine, it is just that linux can't see it.

[RobRich]

Try using the DMA-33 controller, since most ATA-66 interfaces are recognized as SCSI type devices, and that Linux has only started to have limited support for ATA-66 controllers. I use Slackware, and it does the same thing with my Promise-based ATA-66 controller.

[Mntsnow]

Bdog, NO dist of Linux at this time supports the ATA66 controller thus you cannot access a drive on that controller http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif Hopefully they will have ATA66 support in the next kernel (along with USB support)

Mntsnow