RE: problem with installing Debian on a ide raid controler

[Mike Barton <mike@dad.state.vt.us>]

The easiest way around this issue is to use the motherboard IDE ports for
the install. After you've got everything rolling, you can go looking for
some UDMA drivers for your card. Check the Debian site for pointers. SCSI
only systems work because the Debian boot floppy kernel has drivers for most
of the common brand SCSI cards.

Cheers

-----Original Message-----
From: oliver.kowalke@t-online.de [mailto:oliver.kowalke@t-online.de]
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 1:15 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: problem with installing Debian on a ide raid controler


Hi all,

I've a problem installing Debian on my system:

2 x PIII 500MHz
ASUS P2B-D
128MB
Matrox G200
Abit Hot Rod 100 Pro (IDE raid controler -> pci)
Maxtor Diamond Max 8GB
Lite On CDRom 32x

I've plugged the controler on a pci slot and connected the hdd to it. In the
bios I set boot device to "SCSI" - the controler bios then detects the hdd.
If I boot form Debian CD and try to install Linux on the hdd drive - the
install prog doesn't find any hdd drive. How can I install Debian - what do
you do if you try to install Debian on a SCSI-only system (maybe this should
also work with the Abit controler).

thanks a lot,

Oliver

PS : If I set the hdd to the mobo ide controler -all works fine.