Re: [Sheflug] newbie questions

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Matt Fairtlough wrote:

> I am using Gentus Linux, distributed by Abit, makers of my motherboard
> (KA7-100).  Why?  Because the other versions I have tried (SuSE6.4, Debian2.2
> and the latest RedHat) crash on installation, my guess is because UDMA100 and
> in particular, the HighPoint disk controller, is not supported.  Has anyone
> had any experience with installing Linux on a hard drive with an HPT
> controller?  Currently my best option may be to ditch it and use a standard
> IDE controller instead, but of course I'd rather not leave a potentially
> useful bit of hardware lying idle.  Or has anyone experience of Gentus who
> could help advise me on migrating to another Linux distribution from it?

The HighPoint 66 controller was always a bit of a trouble maker so I
suppose it's big brother has some of the same problems. Support is in the
latest kernels (2.4.0-test) but to my knowledge no distribution comes with
one of these development kernels.
Installing on the secondary IDE channel may well be possible and then you
can download a recent kernel and move the disc actoss controllers. It's a
pain but it should work.
Hopefully with the release of 2.4 this problem should go away.
There may be a workaround for this issue, but I haven't found it. A search
on the linux-kernel list archive or deja news may turn up something.

> Secondly, mounting the 250M zip drive.  I guess I can find a driver
> somewhere e.g. from the Iomega web site, but I understand there are problems
> with driving it from Linux and I wondered if there were any guidelines anyone
> knew of for how to proceed.  I don't need it as a boot disk, just for transfer.

I have a original Zip drive that works perfectly, so it shouldn't be an
issue really. Not sure if any of the vendor kernels support it straight
off, but look for it in the IDE section of the kernel configurator.


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