On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 09:31:53PM +0100, John Woodard wrote:
Those of you who were at the last meet at Syleham will recall the difficulty I had getting Linux to install with my Abit BE6 motherboard's ATA66 IDE controller.
I haven't got it working yet either and have opted for just using UDMA-33.
But, to be honest, I haven't tried since I fixed my faulty BP6 board that Abit sent me. At the time I wasn't sure whether the freeze ups were the faulty board or the ATA66 stuff.
Gentus Linux http://www.gentus.com/ seems to be an answer to this problem, a Red Hat based distro from the makers of the offending motherboard specifically targeted at the ATA66 IDE controller problem.
There is no reason that Gentus should be better. Just download the kernel source package from Gentus, then compile and run it on another distro.
I am using Debian and have all of the nice sensors stuff set up. A combination of lm_sensors and bp6mon (http://www.goupilfr.org/creations/) is nice too.
I'm downloading it at the moment 675Mb over 56k modem link! So anybody trying to give me a voice call expect an answer sometime after Euro 2004. :-)
I have a CD of Gentus that came with my mobo. I can copy it if you like?