Hi people - We have continued to work on Londa's Slackware installation from time to time and have made some progress. The new HD is now correctly jumpered as a slave device, but in order to detect either the original HD or the new one we had to use the ata100.i bootdisk instead of bare.i, and the four devices now seem to use the letters 'e' through 'h' instead of 'a' through 'd'. The first four letters are no longer visible, which means our CDROM which was once reported at /dev/hdc is no longer visible. If anyone has found any shortcuts to work around this problem we would sure appreciate knowing about them. The system to which we are adding Linux is in heavy daily use since Londa moderates a couple of active discussion lists in the Windows environment, so we have only occasional access to the system. The ata100.i bootdisk is not just differently configured from bare.i, but it is a patched kernel, which will challenge us when it comes time to reconfigure or add further patches or upgrade. Does anyone know offhand whether the 2.4 kernel series supports UDMA or UATA more directly? This is the first time I have had to deal with a machine that has been so strongly optimized for Windows and we both have a lot to learn here. Thanks for any help... Chuck *<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>* Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (57% of Full)
