RE: IDE - thanks

["Mark W. Knecht" <mknecht controlnet com>]

Brad,
   simply making 3 and 4 equal would not have been a good idea. ID 3 is for
an HPT343 chip, while ID 4 is for the HPT366. To the extent that these chips
are compatible it might have worked. However, they are different chips with
different names, so they probably desire different drivers unless HPT tells
you they are compatible.

Take care,
Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-install-list-admin redhat com
[mailto:redhat-install-list-admin redhat com]On Behalf Of Mugleston,
Brad
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 12:47 PM
To: RedHat
Subject: IDE - thanks


you did it - Thanks for all the help.  I was able to access my SIIG Ultra
ATA 66 PCI card under RedHat 6.0 - with out having to do a patch or
anything.

Thanks

Brad

What, you'd like to know how I did it - I'm not telling (just kidding).

Here goes, I'm going to tell you what I did (none of this was my idea, it
came from the group).

Looking at my /proc/pci file I saw the following

Vendor id = 1103 Device id=4

IRQ 11

I/O at 0xdcd8
I/O at 0xdcd0
I/O at 0xd800

Vendor id = 1103 Device id=4

IRQ 11

I/O at 0xdcc8
I/O at 0xdcd4
I/O at 0xd400

Which matched what my Windows was identifying the card so I knew RH could
see it. RH just didn't know what to do with it.

Looking in my /usr/share/pci.ids vender 1103 was there but id=4 was not
(id=3 was).  I was told that id=4 identified the card as a HTP366.

Doing a search on the web for HTP366 took me to a site that talked about
dealing with the HTP366 card and older Linux (pre 2.4).  I had the option of
downloading some patches or just telling Linux how to handle that card on
boot so at the boot prompt I typed in
Linux ide1=0xded8,0xdcd2,11 ide2=0xdcc8,0xdcd6,11
and it booted and recognized my two CDROM's (look in /var/log/messages)

After that it was a quick edit of lilo.conf to
append=ide1=0xded8,0xdcd2,11 ide2=0xdcc8,0xdcd6,11
then run lilo to update the boot up process.

Then I updated fstab to let me easily mount my two CDROM's

I'm cooking.  Yes, I realize by not using the patches I am not using the
full capabilities of my card but my drives aren't up to it anyway.

Thanks

Brad

Question - lets say I would have gone into my /usr/share/pci.ids to add
Device id=4 and referenced it to my Device id=3.   Would that have worked or
is what I did saver as It's only given me the basic access?



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