Re: problem with ATA100

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

> Cédric Hugon wrote:
> 
> to erik steffl from cedric hugon
> 
> I have the problem when linux tries to create partitions : he doesn't
> recognize harddisk (it's the only drive). It's just after configuring
> keyboard and network. I tried to launch cfdisk(linux) but it stops
> immediately with an error message that tells me there's no harddisk.
> fdisk of windows recognize this drive and there are already 2
> partitions fat32 on this drive. I don't understand I think it's a
> problem with ATA100 : I have a a promise driver that install the drive
> when booting the computer, after the test of IDE drives (this test
> doesn't see any disk, only CDROM devices ). So I can't launch cfdisk
> and he doesn't see any harddisk
> What is "pio" in front of "hda" when booting linux's installation ?

  can you post more exact message? I can only see pio AFTER the hda:

ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc008-0xc00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio

  can you post the output of dmesg?

  if you see hda somewhere it means it recognized disk (I guess)

	erik