Please Help, problems installing Ubuntu 6.06

[Steve Flynn]

On 06/10/06, cl at isbd.net <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>
> It's a problem specifically to do with the Jmicron SATA/PATA interface
> which is used on many motherboards which have the Intel 965 chipset.
> The Intel chipset doesn't have a PATA (i.e. old fashioned IDE)
> interface at all so the JMicron chipset is added to provide a PATA
> interface.  The JMicron PATA interface doesn't have drivers in the
> kernel except in the very latest (2.6.18) kernel.  Ubuntu have patched
> the drivers into the 2.6.17 kernel in Ubuntu 6.10 beta.


Ahhhhhh - it becomes clear now. Also, I'd not realised that the motherboard
didn't have a "real" IDE interface... I'll reconsider my purchase. Thank
you! :)


I've ordered a SATA DVD/CD drive to overcome the problem.  The Intel
> SATA interface works well with most reasonably new Linux kernels if
> you turn AHCI on in the BIOS.
>

Bugger me - didn't know you could get them! Either way, I don't want to get
rid of my nice Plextor burner just because it's on an IDE interface so I'll
be looking for an alternative


-- 
Steve
Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black...
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