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I bought Red Hat v3.0.3 (Official and registered) some time ago and had it
running on my then machine, with only minor install problems.  Hard drives
and things were changed and RH never went back on :(.  Now I've had a burst
of enthusiasim and want it back on.  Unfortuneately I've had similar
problems to the original install and can't get it back on.  I believe the
problem is with my ide controller.  When I install RH, I *have to* use the
3 floppy install method or else all locks up when the last partition is
formatted.  With the 3 floppy install I can get to the 4th or 5th package
being loaded and then it locks up.   
  I have borrowed a friends Infomagic CD set and currently have Slackware
running until I can get his RH4 CD (needed for his assignment at the
moment).(Red Hat 4.2 has been ordered now).  In the Slackware I noticed an
option for the CMD640 Controller when the kernel is compiled.  Does RH have
this?   
  When booting into Win95 after being in Linux the IDE controller does not
see the secondary channel and therefore the CD.  To fix this I need to
tweak the registry and re-boot (usually twice) to get my CD-ROM to appear.

After all of this waffle, all I want to know is, does RH 4 or 4.1 (or the
new 4.2) include support for this 'buggy' controller? and is there a way to
get around the lost channel in Win 95 (apart from a new motherboard, which
is being seriously considered).
New ISA controller - $40
New PCI controller - $120
New motherboard - $200+

Machine:-
P75, 32Mb Ram
Asustek PCI/I-P54SP4 Motherboard
  with onboard CMD640 IDE Controller
2.5Gb HD   /dev/hda
1.2Gb HD   /dev/hdb
IDE CD-ROM  /dev/hdc

Any thoughts will be greatly appreciated.
(mailed to me if possible please)

regards, 
 Nathan.

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