Re: Lost Drive?

[cloudmaster <cloudmaster@cloudmaster.com>]

Steven Pritchard wrote:
> cloudmaster said:

...stuff reminding me that there _are_ man pages... :)

> > Speaking of hard drives, does anyone know if there's support for any ATA/66
> > controllers that aren't Promise's controller?  Specifically, an "HPT366
> > Ultra ATA/66" controller (that comes on BP6 boards)?  I'd be happy with
> > ATA/33 speed, or even less for a while...
> 
> >From the 2.3.13 Configure.help:
> 
> HPT366 chipset support
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT366
>   This is an Ultra DMA chipset for ATA-66.
>   This driver adds up to 4 more EIDE devices sharing a single
>   interrupt. The HPT366 chipset in its current form is a non-bootable.
>   This driver requires dynamic tuning of the chipset during the ide-probe
>   at boot. It is reported to support DVD II drives, by the manufacturer.
> 
>   Please read the comments at the top of drivers/block/hpt366.c

The 2.3 series is now feature-locked, right?  So stability oughtta be
reasonable or better?  I guess I'll try out a development kernel then,
although I never did get a 2.1 kernel to work...

I'll have to read that not bootable stuff closer, because just last night I
moved my boot drive over to the connectors on that side and booted from
it.  Of course then there was a horrible death experienced as the root
device didn't actually exist (no /dev/hde because no support for the
controller, and no /dev/hda because that was now elsewhere).

Eh, back to ripping 7GB worth of mp3's again.  At least I can re-encode
them faster now...

--Danny

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