I've been trying for 2 days now to get Slackware 8.0 installed on my computer with some new hardware I have installed. I had no problems in the past. The hardware causing the trouble is the 100gig ATA100 drive I installed along with the SIIG pciIDE controller card to support the ata100 drive. I can't find a good HOWTO for ata100 and I've been looking searching google. Can someone on here give me a good answer or way to get support for these drives.

Take a look at this: http://www.geocities.com/ender7007/

This is what I used to get my ATA100 HDs working. I don't know what your computer profile is, however, this may help. Pay special attention to the append command that is needed in your lilo.conf

The problem for me was to get my ATA100 HDs recognized at all. I originally had RedHat 7.0 installed, but read that 7.1 did a better job of recognizing peripherals. When I originally installed V7.1, I had both HDs on the IDE channel. Then I decided to change over to the ATA100 connector. Was not successful in getting the HDs recognized. So I

• re-installed V7.1 with HDs on IDE
• edited my lilo.conf and added the append line
• Moved HDs from IDE to ATA
• rebooted

After that, everything worked fine.

Also, if this doesn't help you, go to Google.com and search on "ATA100" and "UDMA" to get more info.