No, it doesn't work with ata66smp kernel. I think the smp is the cause, because it gives an error right at the starting of the kernel. I need the ata66 without smp, but i could not find it. Also in the same directory readme is mentioned to exist.
I think the main problem is the UDMA33 support for hdd on the old system, and it must be supported by the kernel.

It worked with Slackware 12.2 like colorpurple21859 suggested. Thanks again for the suggestion. There is only one more problem, the mouse isn't working. It is a serial mouse, the bios seems to have set it like Serial 1 : 3F8 / IRQ 4, Serial 2 : 2F8 / IRQ 3. I think the mouse is at serial 1, so it must be normal to be. I have tried some different configurations from the setup, mouse section, not all of them of course, but it still doesn't work. I think it might be simpler to change the /dev/mouse link to the right device, like the setup suggested. I have tried but i didn't manage to do it. I don't know the exact command to do, maybe ln, as it is a link. Maybe symbolic, i don't know. I have tried to do it from the mc menu but it didn't work.

Any help? Thanks in advance.

It worked with Slackware 12.2 like colorpurple21859 suggested. Thanks again for the suggestion. There is only one more problem, the mouse isn't working. It is a serial mouse, the bios seems to have set it like Serial 1 : 3F8 / IRQ 4, Serial 2 : 2F8 / IRQ 3. I think the mouse is at serial 1, so it must be normal to be. I have tried some different configurations from the setup, mouse section, not all of them of course, but it still doesn't work. I think it might be simpler to change the /dev/mouse link to the right device, like the setup suggested. I have tried but i didn't manage to do it. I don't know the exact command to do, maybe ln, as it is a link. Maybe symbolic, i don't know. I have tried to do it from the mc menu but it didn't work.

Any help? Thanks in advance.

try this
replace <real device> with actual device of mouse. If that doesn't work then try

i have managed to create symbolic link from /dev/mouse, through mc menu->edit symbolic link. The problem is that now it is set to point to /dev/input/mice. I have tried to modify it to point to /dev/input/mouse0, /dev/ttys0, /dev/ttys1, different configurations from setup, for the mouse, uncommenting the serial mouse line from /etc/rc.d/rc.modules (/sbin/modprobe sermouse), but still didn't worked. I think that it is possible that the mouse to be broken. Maybe if i get a serial-ps/2 adaptor and try to see if the ps/2 mouse from the other computer works. I'll think about that. If you have any suggestions or you know how to do it, i'll be thankful if you tell me. Also, i have another annoying problem, at boot time, very often it does a filesystem check, after it reports that it FIXED something on it, and sometimes it reboots after the check. It seems to be something about the last check time set in the future, this is the reason for doing the check. I think the BIOS does this change. Maybe i must do a "tune2fs -i 0 /dev/hda2" to get rid of this, but also this lets to me the task of checking regularly the filesystem, i think.

when time was setup what did you you select? If you selected UTC, that may be causing the problem. or if you set it for the wrong timezone. run timeconfig select your timezone and see if that fixes the problem

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About the date and time problem, the problem persists because the date and time is not maintained in BIOS, when i halt the computer, because part of it it is corrupted, like i said. So, every time that i start the computer again, after being halted, it starts the time again from the 1.1.1980 12:00:00 AM, rather than correct time and date. The only solution to this problem is to set it manually, every time i start the computer, at cold boot, to the correct values. So, i get rid of the filesystem inconsistency.

About the serial/mouse problem. I have documented myself furthermore by reading the root mail, in alpine, and there it is a suggestion of setting serial ports correctly. So, i made executable the /etc/rc.d/rc.serial, edited the /etc/serial.conf to un-comment the lines corresponding to the serial ports. Even i tested with the uncommented line corresponding to serial module kernel loading in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules, but still i haven't managed to get it function. With this changes i notice the following messages at boot:

touch: can not touch /var/lock/subsys/serial: No such file or directory.
/dev/ttyS0) at 0x03F8 (irq=4) is a 16450
/dev/ttyS1) at 0x02F8 (irq=3) is a 16450

In dmesg the serial ports are reported as 16550A. So i tested Serial 1 with 16550A (/etc/serial.conf) but still do not works.

I am thinking about re-flashing bios. Is there a good and working slackware (12.2) application for flashing bios rom? Because i have the original bios file.