[ale] Promise Ultra66 IDE controler card

[THE_BIGDOG]

I have a Promise Ultra66 IDE controller card and a Western Digital 18.0
GB EIDE 7200 RPM hard drive.  Promise came out with a driver for this
setup, but it is for Redhat 6.0 with kernel 2.2.5. I have worked my way
to Mandrake 6.1  with kernel 2.2.13-7mdk.  i have it setup to that burn
cd's, run Quake3, Unreal demo, get pics from my digital camera and most
every thing else I want to do, I'm a newbie and there was a "LOT" of
pain just for me to get where I am today. I'm not wanting to go back to
Redhat 6.0 (i do have the box sets of 5.2 and 6.0) it just does not work
as well as Mandrake 6.1 for me, ie.: I could not get a kernel complied
and working right in Redhat for burning CD's with a IDE burner. So I'm
looking for any help I can get in get the 18 gig on line in linux. I
would even settle for just being able to use the drive for storage if I
can not install linux on it. So far at boot this is what my system is
seeing at boot:

RAM disk driver initialized:  16 RAM disks of 4096K size
PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 78, VID=10b9,
DID=5229  << ***i think this is it***
PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
PCI_IDE: simplex device:  DMA disabled
ide0: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)        <<< *** I do not
understand this*****
PCI_IDE: simplex device:  DMA disabled
ide1: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
hda: WDC AC26400B, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC AC36400L, ATA DISK drive
hdc: RICOH CD-R/RW MP7040A, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdd: ASUS CD-S400, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: WDC AC26400B, 6149MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=784/255/63
hdb: WDC AC36400L, 6149MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=784/255/63
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi : 1 host.
  Vendor: RICOH     Model: CD-R/RW MP7040A   Rev: 1.40
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
  Vendor: ASUS      Model: CD-S400           Rev: 2.30
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
scsi : detected 2 SCSI cdroms total.
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 20x/20x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.55
sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 0x/40x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 >
 hdb: hdb1
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 60k freed
Adding Swap: 313228k swap-space (priority -1)
Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
SB 4.16 detected OK (220)
<SoundBlaster EMU8000 (RAM512k)>
VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,0)
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A


and it's running after all of that.  Thanks for any help you guys can
give me.

A newbie
Lee Roy