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> DSL 4.3 DOES recognize and mount the partitions on hde but it uses grub -
> where does grub hide its kernel?  This is a live CD with 2.4.31 kernel.
> I may try Slackware 10.1 kernel but my modules probably won't work with it
> if it was compiled with a different gcc.  It supports new and old Promise
> controllers - mine does only new ones, whatever that means.
>
> Sindi

Slackware 10.2 bare.i kernel supports OLD and NEW Promise controllers. 
dmesg revealed that I have an 'old' model (PDC20262) so I recompiled with 
support for both old and new Promise controllers.

http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/2.4.31/bzimavsp.431 and confvsp.431
See also blfiles.htm for a discussion of how I compiled it.

Supports also VIA 82C and SIS PCI IDE controllers (hda hdb hdc hdd).
My vns kernel supports Nforce2 controllers.  These faster controllers are 
abysmally slow if not used with the right driver in linux.

For Promise add-in card or a second pair of onboard controllers, you must 
first boot with some other kernel (Slackware 10.2 bare.i 2.4.31 works but 
not all the modules that I compiled work with it, or DSL) and edit fstab 
to change to hde, and make hde* (mknod dev hde b 33 0, and 1 for hde1, 
etc.).  BL3 will boot with the wrong fstab but BL2 will not. Neither will 
boot before you make the devices.

I read that Promise controllers do not control CD-ROM drives, so plug them 
into the original controllers (or ide0 and ide1).  My Gigabyte BX2000+ 
BIOS lets you boot from U66, A, C.  It boots to a C: prompt on the drive 
plugged into the Promise controller.

A UDMA 2 drive is running at about 12MB/sec now instead of 6.

Sindi