Installation with off-Board IDE
Hello,
yesterday, I tried to install Debian 2.2 on a system with ASUS A7V
board. This board is special in several ways. Apart from a total of
seven (!) USB ports, it has an onboard Promise UATA/100 chip, in
addition to the UATA/66 controller built into the VIA chipset.
The system shipped with the CD-ROM as primary master on the
UATA/66-Bus and the HD as primary master on the Promise Bus. The
Debian installation did not find this drive nor the IDE controller.
I don't know if Linux-2.2.17 supports this chip at all, because I
tried compiling a custom kernel after a succesful installation with
the drive on the UATA/66 bus, but even with "other IDE chipset"
support Linux wouldn't detect the controller.
Asus boards and especially this one are quite common, at least here
in Germany, so i think I might not be the only one with this problem.
Just thought I'd let you know...
Bye,
A. Heinlein
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