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by **Stephen Green** » Wed, 21 Jun 2000 04:00:00

Hi,
Does anyone know how to configure linux to work with promises'
Ultra 66 pci card?
I have downloaded drivers from the promise site, unfortunatly they
don't come with any hints!
Thanks

- Stephen Greene

by **Matthew Gat** » Wed, 21 Jun 2000 04:00:00

This has been talked about too many times to repeat;
deja.com/usenet search it.

>Hi,
>Does anyone know how to configure linux to work with promises'
>Ultra 66 pci card?
>I have downloaded drivers from the promise site, unfortunatly they
>don't come with any hints!
>Thanks

>- Stephen Greene

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by **Andariu** » Thu, 03 Aug 2000 04:00:00

Quote:>Hi,
>Does anyone know how to configure linux to work with promises'
>Ultra 66 pci card?
>I have downloaded drivers from the promise site, unfortunatly they
>don't come with any hints!
>Thanks

>- Stephen Greene

Clipped from the site that helped me!

Ultra66.txt
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by **James Richard Tyre** » Thu, 03 Aug 2000 04:00:00

> >Hi,
> >Does anyone know how to configure linux to work with promises'
> >Ultra 66 pci card?
> >I have downloaded drivers from the promise site, unfortunatly they
> >don't come with any hints!
> >Thanks

> >- Stephen Greene

> Clipped from the site that helped me!

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Name: Ultra66.txt
> Ultra66.txt Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
> Encoding: 7bit

From my previous message:

I just finished installing a Promise Ultra66 card today. My
suggestions:

1. Read the Ultra-DMA HOW TO available on the web. The instructions
for the Ultra33 card about passing the paramaters to the kernel should
enable you to boot from the floppy and use the hard drive with the
Ultra66 card.

2. The issue is not the version of some distribution of Linux, but
the version of the Kernel. You need to upgrade the Kernel to v.2.2.16
and apply the patch 'ide .2.2.16.all.20000722' to the source before you
build it.

3. Then you may need to edit 'lilo.conf' by hand and run /sbin/lilo.
I found that my system would not boot. It just printed LI and
stopped., untill, I added the 'linear' global paramater.

Everything now works (ant it only took three days to figure it out!)

Note that the attachment is an excerpt from the Ultra-DMA HOWTO

Previous message had a typo -- it is Kernel v.2.2.16 that is needed. This is
available from kernel.org. The patch is somewhat burried at
.../pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/

JRT

tyrerj.vcf
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by **Jake** » Fri, 04 Aug 2000 04:00:00

Hi James,

>I just finished installing a Promise Ultra66 card today. My
>suggestions:

I'm on day two, still not working ... :-)

Quote:>1. Read the Ultra-DMA HOW TO available on the web. The instructions
>for the Ultra33 card about passing the paramaters to the kernel should
>enable you to boot from the floppy and use the hard drive with the
>Ultra66 card.

>2. The issue is not the version of some distribution of Linux, but
>the version of the Kernel. You need to upgrade the Kernel to v.2.2.16
>and apply the patch to the source before you
>build it.

Thanks, didn't know about the 'ide .2.2.16.all.20000722' patch.
Maybe that's my last problem. :-)

Quote:>The patch is somewhat burried at
>.../pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/

Thanks again,
Scott

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