On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, John Woodard wrote:
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.
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. :-)
Hmmm, maybe you would be interested in this story from the register http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/11744.html
looks like you could just download the source or patches instead of the full 675MB (ouch that would really hurt on dialup) and have a go with that,