Re: installation problem
Most likely the kernel is not aware of the ATA100 interface yet. If you
can, slot in a multi-I/O card with IDE i/f & use this to install. You'll
have to seek out a kernel patch for the ATA100 controller. The reported
"Promise" controller is the ATA100 chipset being detected but not
recognized.
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Paul Sims (wulfie@wulfric7.co.uk)
SpireLUG - the Chesterfield Linux User Group
www.spirelug.org.uk
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On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, lhomer wrote:
> I have an asus-cubx motherboard with intel 440BX AGPset 100 MHZ W/ ATA100 and intel p3750EF, 750MHZ cpu
> I have two ide hard drives, either can boot windows with no difficulty
> The windows system reports a scsi device described as a "Windows 95-98 Promise Ultra 100 (tm) IDE controller (PDC20265)
> When I try to boot redhat 6.2, it stops when I try to select the type of installation and tells me I have no suitable medium (I guess no
> hard drive)
> When I try to boot the Debian SCSI version it tells me I have no hard drive. It doesn't find a SCSI, and it seems to have picked the irq's and addresses appropriate to the hard drives in ideo and ide1 listings, picks up my two cdroms (hdc and hdd) and a zip drive (hdb) ok, but no hard drive. It also reports the failure to initialize a WD-7000 SCSI card, despite a previous line stating no scsi card was found.
> The Debian IDE version also can't find a hard drive.
> What should I try?
>
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