[NTLUG:Discuss] UDMA 66 installation?

[Lance Simmons]

Kyle Edbauer wrote:

> Since the 2.2 kernels do support UDMA and we can assume that the drives
> and bios are configured correctly because Win 98 works, then it looks like
> the problem is not with either one.  At what point in the Redhat install
> does it fail?  Specific steps and error messages would be nice.
>

I boot from the cdrom, choose INSTALL, CUSTOM, DISK DRUID (or FDISK, which gives
the same result), and get the error message:

"An error has occurred - no valid devices were found on which to create new
filesystems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this problem."

>From searching the usenet archives at deja.com, it seems that what I'd need to do
is trick linux into treating the hard drive as a UDMA 33 drive for the install,
and then patch the kernal  to support UDMA 66. I haven't found anyone saying that
there's UDMA 66 support built into any of the current releases of the kernel,
though there may be.

My original question was whether there's a distribution available that has UDMA 66
support, and based on what I've read today, I'm inclined to think there isn't yet
one available. But I hope I'm wrong.

Lance