Re: ultra-66 hard drive

[Chris Albertson <calbertson logicon com>]

kevinj merlin sps mot com wrote:
> 
> I don't know if this is the right place for this question, I hope you will
> indulge me.
> 
> I recently bought RH6, but couldn't install it. RH tech support identified the
> problem: RH doesn't have a driver for my ultra-66 hard drive. (We tried the
> "promise-66" (?) patch but that didn't work either.)


What __exactly__ do you have?  Who makes the drive and what is the part number?
What does the data cable plug into?  The Motherboard?  An add-on controller?

The "promise-66" is a controller not a disk drive.  Are you trying to use
an add-on  ultra-66  controller?  If so just skip it and cable the drive
directly to the IDE connector on the motherboard.  All '66 drives fall back
to 33Mhz mode and are backward compatible.

> Where would I see an announcement when a driver is available?
The only way I know of is to keep watching the kernel source that
Linus releases periodically.  I have seen a few web pages that try and
summarize what is in each new kernel but they don't go into such detail
as to list new/improved drivers.


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