Will an ATA100 drive function on a traditional
ATA controller?  If so, then you could plug
the ATA100 drive into a traditional controller
and get Linux up and running in that configuration.

Then you could either patch the kernel that comes
with RH 7.0, grab the latest 2.3.xx kernel (if it
has native support for your ATA100 controller) or
grab the newly released 2.4 kernel (if it has native
support for your ATA100 controller).  Compile your
new kernel with ATA100 support (not as a module),
install the new kernel, shutdown, move the drive
from the traditional controller to the ATA100
controller, verify the current moon phase, pray,
sacrifice the goat of scape, and boot the system.


HTH,

D

* On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:48:18AM -0700, Keith Wheeler wrote:
> 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