Douglas Mayne wrote:

> Background:
> I have a (common) motherboard with onboard IDE. I have added more IDE
> ports using a Promise IDE controller, and I have recompiled the kernel to
> enable support for Promise controllers (support is disabled by default
> in Slackware kernels.) I am using kernel 2.4.24.
>

I don't necessarily have a solution; I would just like you to know that
support for IDE cards is supported out of the box. I have 2 models of
Promise cards, one type of Silicon Image, and some Highpoints. All of
these work seamlessly with the stock install of Slack (at least 9.0 & 9.1).

Neil