ULTRA66/DMA mode 4 in Linux?

PhiberOptik asks: "I recently got a BP6 board, with onboard ULTRA66 controllers and ran into a problem with my Red Hat 6.0 installation. It seems that Red Hat Linux will not support the controllers, which my main hard disks are hooked up to. So far as I know, no Linux distros exist with ULTRA66 support, and BeOS or Solaris 7 won't recognize them either. Are there any updates or distros which support this new technology?"

Comments

Oye.

[DrZaius]

I just have to make one comment that has really been pissing me off as of late:

Distro's do not support hardware; kernels support hardware. Therefore, if you are using a 2.2.10 kernel, you will have support for all of the different pieces of hardware it supports- no matter what distro you use.

Now then, if there exists support for this particular controller, you will have to make a module for it and configure the card with something like "modprobe ". You may, heaven forbid, have to hack around with things, maybe use a floppy distro to build your kernel and so forth.

Also, you will have to embed the module into your kernel if you need to boot off of your drives on this controller since the modules will be on that particular drive. Thus, I suggest making your root partition on a different controller and having fun that way.

If there exists no support for this card, I guess you will have to wait for it, write the driver yourself, or return your board and do a little bit of research before making another purchase.