Compaq IDE cont and sound card woes

[fyddler]

Hey,

I've got a piece of Compaq Deskpro EN/866 at work that was wiped by the "helpful" IT folks and had NT installed on it. I promptly re-wiped it and installed RH6.2.

I've had pretty good success with it so far except for two pieces of hardware:
1) Built-in sound card. Don't know the model, just some Intel sound card that sndconfig doesn't recognize aside from producing a vendor string. Oh well, I put my old aureal card in and it's working fine. If anyone knows what sound card module I could use I'd appreciate it.

2) The damn IDE controller comes up as unrecognized. I picked up a kernel patch for a compaq smart array or some such, but even with the patch the kernel doesn't recognize the HD and I'm stuck at 4MB/s for an UDMA66 HD. There's gotta be a way around this...

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
fyddler

[mdwatts]

I have a Compaq EN/650 and EN/550 at work both running Caldera eDesktop 2.4 and the onboard sound was detected during the install. Not in the office until Monday, so cannot tell you which modules it uses.

For your HD, have you tried using 'hdparm'? There is a NHF here http://linuxnewbie.internet.com/nhf/intel/hardware/hdtweak.html that may help.

[fyddler]

Well, I found the NHF for UDMA66 and installed the patch it referenced. Turns out the IDE chipset was PIIX4 from Intel. With the IDE patch it was identified and my transfer rates went from 3.8 MB/s to 24 MB/s. Woo-hoo!!

Thanks for the help linuxnewbie.

Thanks for the response mdwatts. That sound card's the last piece of the puzzle for me.

-fyddler