i am trying to install mandrake 7.2 on my system and i cant get it to recognize the ata 100 HD. i have an asus a7v motherboard with the promise ata 100 controller and a maxtor diamond plus HD. can anyone tell me if it supported in 7.2 or where i can find a driver or anything for it or am i just doing something wrong. thanks

I have the same A7V. You will have to go through a lot to get the ATA100 working in Linux. First connect the drive to the regular IDE connector. Install 7.2, then download kernel the latest 2.2 kernel and also the patch for it. You have to then compile the kernel and configure the promise controller using menuconfig and choose it in the options. After that you have to disable fsck cause it seems to lock up when trying to deteck your drive ATA controller when booting. Your next option could be download the 2.4 kernel which even has USB functionality and numerous kernel options. If you are not that good a linux get a friend who is and ask him to help set you up. If you need step by instructions. email me.

I'm having a pain with Promise Ultra100 adaptor and Slackware 7.1 too. I compiled 2.4.0 with all of the Promise and Ata66/100 support, and iso9660 file system support and low-level scsi, andandand... I found one interesting thing on the Promise website. It said two things: First, you may need a BIOS which supports PnP OS's (what does that say for WinNT/2000 and Linux?) and second, the controller is supposed to use 0xC000-0xDFFF, which are addresses often used by other components... maybe things will work if you can get rid of other conflicts in this memory range. I do know someone who has an onboard PromiseATA100 controller working (K7V Mboard)-- I think he just doesn't have many components installed, and maybe there are no conflicts... if anyone knows more, please email me.

http://www.themonsens.org/michaelfamily/a7v_and_mandrake_7.2 that should cure your problems