Re: Installation woes on Dell 8300 (SATA Harddisk)
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, peter robinson wrote:
> Resent-From: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
>
> Hi Debian People!
>
> I was wondering if you could give me a hand...I am pretty new to Debian but
> decided to try it out for my new computer, which apparently has too new
> hardware to be supported by the 2.4.22 kernel.
>
> The initial installation process hangs at
> hda: attached ide-disk driver
>
>
> Previously, detected the hardware reliably (it seems), including
>
> ICH5-SATA: chipset revision 2
> ICH5-SATA: 100% native mode on irq 9
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfea0-0xfea7, BIOS settings hda:DMA,hdb:pio
> (...)
> ide0 at 0xfea00-0xfe07,0xfe12 on irq9
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq15
> hda: ST3120026AS, ATA DISK drive
>
> The computer is a Dell 8300 Dimension "Special Edition" with a Pentium IV 3
> GHz, 120 GB SATA Harddisk (7200rpm, 8MB DataBurst Cache), 1024 dual channel
> DDR/400 memory and an 128 MB ATi Radeon 9800 Pro-8xAGP graphic card.
>
> If you have any suggestions as to how to get Debian installed on this system,
> I would be extremely grateful!...I imagine I will need to somehow get a newer
> kernel version with support for SATA? How would I integrate this with the 3.0
> installation DVD? I was not able to find a howto online...
>
> THanks
>
> Peter
>
>
>
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