Re: ATA 100 on A7V

[Jeff Licquia <licquia@debian.org>]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 11:37:43AM -0500, Danny Sauer wrote:
> Hey, does anyone know offhand of a distrib that supports installing to
> the promise ATA100 controller on an Asus A7V?  I'm stabbing slackware on
> now (after 2 days of trying to get a working boot/root combo with the
> kernel patches required for that chipset's suport and finally just moving
> the drive to the ATA/33 side), but I'm not sure how happy stuff's gonna be
> when I try to move the drive over to the "slightly faster but still crappy
> IDE" side...

Debian includes an "udma66" boot disk set that may do what you need.
It includes the IDE kernel patches for several of the new chipsets.
Last I checked, it didn't support any ATA100 controllers I knew of,
but if Promise made their ATA100 controller backward-compatible, then
it should still work.
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