2.4 boot disks

[ivan]

On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 08:17:03AM -0800, tom@grubby.net wrote:
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> > (PDC20265) and a couple of PCI cards with PDC20267.  i think that's
> > different from the Promise RAID cards.  i was mostly responding to chris,
> > who said ata/100 isn't in the debian kernel-patch-ide... maybe the
> > answer to "am I missing something here?" is "44mb/s".
> > 
> 
> OK. They are actually the same thing, or at least the RAID card has the
> same chipset as the ata/100 ( PDC20267 ). 

Hmm... interesting.  Did some searching - apparantly the FastTrak RAID
cards are essentially the same hardware as the regular ATA cards - the
RAID is done mostly in the Windows drivers.  Hua.

> But I think what Chris might have been referring to was the boot disk
> images avaiable for download, rather than the patches available. The
> subdir for the images I downloaded was something like 'udma66'. 
> [ Noise of patched kernel compiling in background ]
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> > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > So, you can do what I did: get a vanilla kernel from kernel.org, then
> > > > > get the ata100 patches from www.linux-ide.org, patch, build, copy to
> > > > > rescue floppy, boot, install, enjoy.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I'd offer a copy of my rescue floppy, but I never succeeded in
> > > > > building driver disks, so I just built the stuff I needed into my
> > > > > kernel, so it probably won't help you.
> > > > > -- 
> > > > > Chris Waters   xtifr@dsp.net | I have a truly elegant proof of the
> > > > >       or    xtifr@debian.org | above, but it is too long to fit into
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