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HPT370/372/372A Red Hat Linux Installation Guide
controller, you must update the kernel to remove HPT366 IDE support from it first.
There are two ways to do this.
1. Building a new kernel from kernel source
To build a new kernel, you must have installed kernel source and related packages.
These packages are:
kernel-headers
kernel-source
make
binutils
glibc-devel
ncurses
ncurses-devel
cpp
gcc
You can find these packages (.rpm file) under directory RedHat/RPMS/ on Red Hat
Linux CD. You can use command " rpm – i" to install an .rpm file.
After all required packages are installed, follow these steps to build a new kernel:
1) Use the following command to add a link to the source directory:
for RedHat 7.1
# ln – s /usr/src/linux-2.4.2 /usr/src/linux
for RedHat 7.2
# ln – s /usr/src/linux-2.4.7-10 /usr/src/linux
2) Remove the following 2 lines from /usr/src/linux/drivers/ide/ide-pci.c:
3) If you are using RedHat 7.2 on Athlon type CPU, you need to check kernel type
setting every time before rebuilding new kernel. Using the commands below:
# cp /boot/kernel.h /boot/kerne.h.old
# sed 's/i686/athlon/g' /boot/kernel.h.old > /boot/kernel.h
4) Type in the following commands to configure the kernel:
# cd /usr/src/linux
# make clean
# make menuconfig
Now the kernel configuration dialog will appear. You can adjust the options
based on your running system' s hardware/software configuration. For most
options you can simply use the default setting except the following:
{DEVID_HPT34X, "HPT34X", PCI_HPT34X, NULL, ...
{DEVID_HPT366, "HPT366", PCI_HPT366, ATA66_HPT366, ...
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