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  From: Vladimir V. Bashkirtsev <mega@konectanet.com.au>
  To  : Robert Mibus <mibus@bigpond.com>
        John Davey <john@davey.net.au>
  Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 01:51:43 +1030

Re: ATA 100 Hard drive and installing LINUX

> On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:51:06PM +1030, John Davey wrote:
> > Yes you need the linux 2.4.0 kernel for ATA100 support
> Or you can get the patch, and rebuild the kernel.
> www.linux-ata.org IIRC.
> (maybe linux-ide.org, I'm not sure. email me if you can't find it, I'll
> send you a patch for 2.2.17 or 2.2.18)

Or you can leave your current 2.2.* kernel alone... :) Do lspci , find
unrecognized mass storage device, write down first 4 IO ports and then add
it to lilo.conf with append like:
append="ide2=<firstIO>,<secondIO+2> ide3=<thirdIO>,<fourthIO+2>"

Thus you will force your kernel to work with this controller. Most of
ATA-100 controllers IDE specification compliant just have different IDs
which confuse kernel to recogize device. In this config you will get hde,
hdf, hdg, hdh.

> I'm doing this, and it works *fantastic*. Well, the machine pauses a bit
> while it searches for non-existant drives hde&hdf at boot time, but I
> can live with that given how much it helps the speed of everything else
> :-)

If you have no drives on channel then simply omit it and you will boot
faster! If you wish to see your ATA as hda then use ide0 instead ide2.

Vladimir

PS: Patch sounds better but how you will patch kernel on drive which you
cannot recognize?! I don't mean physical reconnection of drive to EIDE - I'm
too lazy for it... :)

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