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Hello. I (by surprise) find that my Ultra 5 uses a standard 40-pin IDE |
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cable, and the on-board connector seems to be only a standard IDE |
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connector, thus, my harddisk, being able to run ATA66, is only working |
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in very slow standard IDE mode. |
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I have a Promise PCD 20262 IDE card. I pluged it into the Ultra 5 |
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(standard PCI slot). Now this card could be detected and configured by |
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my old Gentoo installation. Next, I wish to plug the hdd on the IDE |
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card. Now comes two problems. |
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1. How to install Gentoo. spacr64 2004.3 livecd compiled PDC drive as |
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module, I don't know why: simply "modprobe pdc202xx_old" would load the |
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module but gives a error message "Killed" and device is not detected. |
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*But*, compile pdc202xx_old into kernel is okay, the device is correctly |
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detected. This way, I could not use livecd to install boot system onto |
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the hdd on the IDE card. |
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2. How to boot from the hdd on the card. I just learnt to use 'boot |
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cdrom' on OBP to boot from CDROM, but yet is it possible to boot from |
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the hdd on the card? If this is not possible, perhaps I need to prepare |
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a boot floppy to bring up the OS (on hdd)? |
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Thank you for your help . |
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