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by **erv** » Mon, 23 Oct 2000 04:00:00

Hi,
I'm trying to update the hard drive on my old PII 233 machine.
I bought a new Promise ultra66 controller. How do I get the mother
board (bios)to except this new controller card and hard drive?
I was able to download the bios from Promise for Linux for the ultra66
card. I have to be able to start the system to be able to upload the
dma66 bios to the mother board? I have just taken the old harddisk out
of the chain.

Anyway I'm clueless any help would be appreciated.

by **James Richard Tyre** » Tue, 24 Oct 2000 04:00:00

> Hi,
> I'm trying to update the hard drive on my old PII 233 machine.
> I bought a new Promise ultra66 controller. How do I get the mother
> board (bios)to except this new controller card and hard drive?

The BIOS on the card will install itself when you boot the system.

Quote:
> I was able to download the bios from Promise for Linux for the ultra66
> card.

The BIOS you down loaded is an upgrade for the flash BIOS on the Promise
card. AFAIK you don't need this for any reason, unless you know of a
specific one.

Quote:> I have to be able to start the system to be able to upload the
> dma66 bios to the mother board?

You aren't going to do this.

Quote:> I have just taken the old harddisk out
> of the chain.

> Anyway I'm clueless any help would be appreciated.

To start the system in DMA 33 mode (or less) follow the directions in the
Ultra-DMA HOWTO -- section 5.1.

Then you need to build a Kernel v. 2.2.26 with the ide patch applied.
Remember to use the global parameter "linear" in you "lilo.conf" file.

It is my understanding that you do not have a HD with anything installed
on it in your system. Therefore, you will need to start an installation,
get to a console, get the numbers and enter them some how. With RedHat,
you would enter at the "Boot:" prompt:

linux ide2=0x<a>,<b+2>

with the numbers you obtained from:

cat /proc/pci

Read the HOWTO and then ask more questions.

JRT

by **erv** » Wed, 25 Oct 2000 04:00:00

Hi,
I'm not sure what you mean by Ultra-DMA HOWTO: Where is it located?
I checked with my manual and did not find such a section.

I did check the jumpers on the drive and have set it to Master drive.
But I still get the following messages while booting from the RH 6.2 boot
disk.
The Hard drive does seem to be recognized. I saw the message going by while
booting.

request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted

VFS: Cannot open root device 03:05

unable to mount root fs on 03:05

> > Hi,
> > I'm trying to update the hard drive on my old PII 233 machine.
> > I bought a new Promise ultra66 controller. How do I get the mother
> > board (bios)to except this new controller card and hard drive?

> The BIOS on the card will install itself when you boot the system.

> > I was able to download the bios from Promise for Linux for the ultra66
> > card.

> The BIOS you down loaded is an upgrade for the flash BIOS on the Promise
> card. AFAIK you don't need this for any reason, unless you know of a
> specific one.

> > I have to be able to start the system to be able to upload the
> > dma66 bios to the mother board?

> You aren't going to do this.

> > I have just taken the old harddisk out
> > of the chain.

> > Anyway I'm clueless any help would be appreciated.

> To start the system in DMA 33 mode (or less) follow the directions in the
> Ultra-DMA HOWTO -- section 5.1.

> Then you need to build a Kernel v. 2.2.26 with the ide patch applied.
> Remember to use the global parameter "linear" in you "lilo.conf" file.

> It is my understanding that you do not have a HD with anything installed
> on it in your system. Therefore, you will need to start an installation,
> get to a console, get the numbers and enter them some how. With RedHat,
> you would enter at the "Boot:" prompt:

> linux ide2=0x<a>,<b+2>

> with the numbers you obtained from:

> cat /proc/pci

> Read the HOWTO and then ask more questions.

> JRT

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