ISA IDE no longer supported?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Thu Mar 12 17:17:18 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 04:16 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> So, I pulled out a Toshiba Satellite 325CDS (P233 MMX) laptop for the
> purpose of GPS logging for OpenStreetMap. The idea being I can leave it
> in my car and if anything I feel sorry for the idiot who bothers to
> steal such a fossil. Unfortunately I can't get F10 to install on it. The
> kernel sees no IDE controllers. It seems the "new" libata drivers do not
> work with plain old ISA IDE. Pentium era laptops typically didn't have
> PCI IDE. Another nail in the coffin for i586.
> 
> Is this supposed to work, or am I on my own?

Please refer to the official Fedora antiquated hardware policy, the KDT:

http://www.happyassassin.net/2009/02/03/the-kentucky-dumpster-test/

;)
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