installing woody using siig ultra ata/133 pci card

[xucaen <xucaen@access-4-free.com>]

Hi all, I'm trying to install woody (3.0r1) from CD's on a PC with an
AMD K6 II 500mhz and a brand new Seagate 80GB Barracuda Ultra ata/100 and a 
brand new SIIG ultra ata/133 pci controller. in addition to the new Seagate,
the pc has an IO Magic CD-ROM and an LG CD-RW. Prior to buying the new Seagate and the new
SIIG controller the pc ran fine with a 2GB Western Digital connected to the
on board IDE.

First I tested the the SIIG controller by connecting the old western digital to
it's primary channel and connected the cd-rom and cd-re to it's secondary channel.
I disabled the onboard ide in the BIOS. I booted. The SIIG sucessfully detected
all drives and linux booted. Every worked.

Then I took out the western digital and installed the new Seagate to the SIIG 
primary channel. I was hoping the SIIG was smart enough to boot from cd but 
it didn't. The SIGG detected all drives but wouldn't boot the cd. 

Now here's where I start my trial and error. I'm not sure what is the best
configuration to use at this point. I removed the cd-rom and cd-rw from the
 SIIG and attached them back to the secondary onboard ide and re-enabled it in
the BIOS. SIIG detected my new Seagate, the BIOS detected both CD drives and the
Debian woody cd booted but the debian installation didn't see the new
Seagate. 

Maybe the SIIG isn't even compatible with linux?
Is there a boot floppy out there that I can use to get the installation going?
How can I get the debian installation to see the Seagate?

Jim