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Old 01-20-2001, 06:37 PM   #1
Douglas
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Hi all. I just made two machines. The first was an old P-166; 100 megs RAM; two small drives. I put ME on one and Linux Mandrake on the other - runs beautifully. The other machine is on an asus A7V (socket) board; a gig Athalon t-bird processor, 40 gigs, 256 Megs RAM, all-in-wonder v-card, etc. etc. etc.... I partioned the drive when I stated out (30 gigs for Windows and 10 Gigs for Linux) - however, I can not get Linux to install. I tried the Corel version; I tried the Mandrake (BRAND NEW!!); I tried two versions of Red Hat, and still nothing. What a friend told me was that because my primary bus is so fast (200 MHZ), Linux can not get to my hard drive. Has anyone else had a similar problem? Is there a version out there that can work with the faster boards? Please HELP!!

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Doug
 
Old 01-22-2001, 09:45 AM   #2
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I think that your friend is wrong ...
Your problem seems to be your ides, that M.B. came with 4 IDE slot: 2 UDMA 100 (strange) and 2 UDMA 66 (normal). Just change your HD to the UDMA 66 slots.

The same trouble has Marci Sarwan (marci_sarwan@yahoo.com), she write here the last week, you should write her (she have the same M.B., the same trouble and she made it work with RH 7.0)

Also check http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/a7vpromise.html, she told me that there are some bootdisk that will recognize the "special" IDE (for the SuSe installation), but for compatibilities issues i recomend you to change to the ide66 slot.
 
  


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