[lug] OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4 and Ultra ATA 100 controller

[Glenn Murray]

I had a similar problem---installing Debian on two machines running
Promise Ultra 66 cards---some time ago.  I discovered, after several
weeks of hassle, that on the first disk of my three-disk Debian 2.2
distro there were installation floppy images supporting the cards in
dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/udma66.  The
existence of these is poorly documented, but they made installation
easy once I knew what to do with them (put them on floppy disks and
use the floppies to start the installation---this wasn't documented,
either).  I seem to recall that after using the first floppy it was
possible to do the rest of the installation from CD-ROM.

I don't know about the 100 drivers.

Glenn Murray
www.mines.edu/~glenn/public_html/Welcome.html

On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Dhruva B. Reddy wrote:

> Someone please correct me if I'm wrong...
> 
> Ultra ATA 66 or 100 does not appear to be supported by Linux out of the box
> (at least with Debian).  Whenever I download the Debian floppy images, I see
> a directory named "udma66".  I assume this contains drivers for Ultra ATA 66.
> Does anyone know if these drivers work for Ultra ATA 100?  I have yet to try
> this.