[ale] install on a maxtor ata/100/20 gig disk

[Marc]

On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Ken Nagorski wrote:
> 	A little off subject, I have a P6SLA from Super Micro. It is a
> little old but it should support the Maxtor 30gig drive I have (It was all
> I could get) Yet it does not. I have thought about getting the add on card
> however I wasn't sure about how these things worked under Linux.
> 
> 	Does anyone have any suggestions. I am thinking that I am better
> off getting a new motherboard? No? Yes?

Sure, the add-in cards work just fine.  Linux has this nasty habit of
noticing your on-board IDE even if you turn it off in BIOS.  This means
if your boot device is on the add-in card it winds up being named
/dev/hde[1234]

You can fix this by building a custom kernel, when in menuconfig choose
  "ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support"  then
     "IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices"
        look under the "IDE chipset support/bugfixes" section
        choose "Boot off-board chipsets first support"

Complile and when you boot of the custom kernel the name the disk
on the add-in card will be /dev/hda[1234]

--marc
marct at mindspring.com




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