Re: ATA 100 on A7V

[Danny Sauer <sauer@cloudmaster.com>]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 02:01:04PM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote:
> 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.

I ended up just putting the drive on the "standard" ide side, doing the
install, and converting everything over to /dev/hde after rebooting.
Installing the newest BIOS allows the ATA-100 interface to boot, and
lilo is fine with it.  Oh, I did need to apply the latest linux-ide
patches to get the 2.4.0-test9 kernel to be happy with the chips.

BTW, ATA100 is a crock. :)  hdparm tells me I can get about 39MB/s out
of the IBM 10K RPM drive, which is pretty good, but I still get 35K
out of the drive on teh ATA/33 interface.  IBM 10K IDE, good.  ATA100, 
not so good.

--Danny, who should've convinced them to spring for SCSI
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