Re: ATA100 problems
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 01:07:08PM +0200, C?dric Hugon wrote:
> I have an asus A7v socket A motherboard with a western digital 30Go 7200 ATA100 and it's the only drive I have. I guessed the ide controller for ata100 is from promise
> Linux doesn't see any harddisk in my computer
> When I try to launch cfdisk, it makes an error message ("you have no hard disk") and stop,it immediately.
> When booting
> I have the following lines concerning ide :
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb800-0xb807 bios settings : hda=pio hdb=DMA
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb808-0xb815 bios settings : hdc=DMA hdd=pio
>
> then I have some lines about hdb and hdc -> they are the CDROMs. So there isn't hda and Hard disk drive for linux. I think I need to load a driver but I don't know how, where and what driver.
Did you try the special "ide" bootdisks? Those have a specially
patched kernel that supports the newer ide controllers.
Cheers,
Joost
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