RH 7.0 & ATA100 question

[Craig White]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Keith
> Wheeler
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 11:48 AM
> To: PLUG
> Subject: RH 7.0 & ATA100 question
>
>
> PLUG,
> I have recently decided to curtail my support for Bill Gates' empire and
> I bought RedHat 7.0 Linux yesterday. Now I'm trying to get it installed
> and it doesn't see my hard drive. I built a system to run it on that
> looks like this:
>
> Asus A7V motherboard
> AMD Athlon 1000
> 256MB ECC PC133 SDRAM
> 45GB ATA100 IBM HDD
> Toshiba 48x CDROM
> 2 - Netgear FA-312 10/100 NICs
> 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP video
>
> The A7V motherboard has an onboard Promise ATA100 controller in addition
> to the traditional ATA66 controller (VIA chipset). It's the Promise
> ATA100 controller that's the source of the problem. Apparently the Linux
> 2.2.16 kernel that ships with RH 7 doesn't recognize this controller
> natively. All the support I've found to date from the Asus web site,
> Promise web site, Newsgroups, etc. has been kernel patches for RH 6.1 &
> 6.2. Nothing for 7.0.
>
> I understand the RH 2.4 kernel MAY natively support the Promise ATA100
> controller. But have not been able to find that either.
>
> Can someone help or point me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks,
> KW
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does CMOS see the hard drive?  if you go into setup (I presume del at
startup) and you do autodetection of ide drives - does your hard drive show
up?

also...RH 7.0 is not 2.4 kernel

I don't love the Netgear NIC's - much prefer the SMC cards.

Craig