[UCLA-LUG] Do Linux run on Athlon w/ 20 GB HD on UDMA 66?

[Dan Helfman]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 09:34:02AM -0700, Yu Ching Tong wrote:
> Hi:
>     I post this because I experience numerous failure when installing
>     Linux (Distribution: Red Hat 6.1 from Cheap byte) It crash when the
>     actual transfer of the package from CD to HD.  The only work around I
>     got right now is reduce the partition of Linux to use less than the
>     1024 cylinder.
> 
>     Is there a patch or something that allow UDMA 66 and larger partition?
>     ( I can only use the fdisk program back in RedHat 5.1 to partition my
>     HD, than go back to install 6.1)

What kind of error messages, if any, are you seeing? Red Hat 6.1 does not
support UDMA 66 by default. You can either 1) download drivers from your
motherboard/controller manufacturer and use those during installation, or 2)
temporarily set your drive into DMA 33 mode for the installation and then
patch the kernel afterwards for UDMA 66 support. Then you can switch back to
UDMA 66.

> 
>     Also, is there are know problem w/ Athlon CPU?

Not as far as I know.

> 
>     Thanks
>     Yu-Ching Tong
>     Apr. 5, 2000

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