On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 21:19:27 -0800 "Stan Banash" <debian_stan@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Hendrik and Dave, > > Thanks for the info it is much appreciated. Dave please send the link, I > would like to review the info. Although, my situation is not exactly the > same as yours. In my case the Optiplex bios disables the IDE controller on > the motherboard when a second one (the Rocket 133) is added. Therefore both > my drive (20GB primary and 250GB secondary) are on the Rocket card. The > latest install attempt (linux26) ran to the point where the disk are > partitioned. At that point the installer reported that no hard disks were > present and I could not go any further. > > My next attempt will be to compile the HPT302.ko driver on my laptop and > transfer it to the Optiplex via the floppy drive, as Hendrik has suggested. > > My only question is what do I have to do with the driver file to get the > installer to recognize it? the installer doesn't need to recognize it. You just need to insmod it so that the installer's currently running kernel can see the hard disk so you can partition it. So before you get to the partition step, Alt-F2 to a console and insmod that driver from the floppy. Then alt-f1 back to the installer and it should see the drive and let you partition it just fine. IMO this is an excellent solution Hendrik. A > > Please keep up the advice guys. I'm learning a lot here and hopefully > others are too. > > FYI: Dave, I added your response to the chain here so that the record is > complete. > > Thanks, > Stan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Witbrodt [mailto:dawitbro@sbcglobal.net] > Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 8:32 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: IDE PCI Advice Needed > > > > However, I would still like to know how to get the driver into the debian > > installer image. It seems that there should be a way for the installer to > > deal with this situation. Like maybe identifying hardware for which no > > driver is available in the install and asking the user to provide it > during > > installation. Any thoughts? > > Sorry to jump into this thread so late. I have an old Pentium III > machine which needed a PCI card to allow me to use newer drives larger > than 137 GB. I faced almost the same situation you are facing. > Luckily, I purchased a Rocket 133SB, with an onboard BIOS which allows > older OSes to use the drives through the card. Windows, for example, > takes a device driver after the install is complete and allows it to > use UDMA speeds instead of "legacy mode." > What I found in the case of Debian was that the installer CD does > not include the necessary HPT302 drivers, but it _installs_ a kernel > that does! I was forced to install Debian to the older hard drive > attached to the IDE controller on the motherboard first; later, I was > able to manually transfer Debian over to the new, bigger, faster drive. > If this information is of any help to you, I can provide you with a > link to the (long) post I made to this list with detailed instructions > about how I carried out these steps. I'm not using a RAID > configuration, however, so if that is your intent then you'll have to > figure out some further details on your own (and with the help of the > good folks on this list!). > > > Dave W. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Hendrik Sattler [mailto:post@hendrik-sattler.de] > Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 5:11 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: RE: RE: IDE PCI Advice Needed > > Stan Banash wrote: > > That is the path I am currently on. So far I have moved the primary drive > > (20 GB) over to the IDE controller (Intel 82371 PIIX4 chipset) on the > > motherboard. The 250 GB drive is set as the secondary on the Rocket 133 > > IDE > > controller. I am getting ready to install the 2.4.27-2 kernel from the > > cdrom. I have already compiled the hpt302.o driver using my laptop > > running > > debian sarge (kernel 2.4.27-2). Once I have installed debian on the > > Optiplex, I plan to move the driver over and run the 'insmod' command. > > Hopefully that will get the card recognized. > > In the installer, press Alt+F2 to get a console. You can load the driver > from > a floppy disk from there. > > HS > > -- > Mein GPG-Key ist auf meiner Homepage verfügbar: > http://www.hendrik-sattler.de > oder über pgp.net > > PingoS - Linux-User helfen Schulen: http://www.pingos.org > > >
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