Re: installing woody using siig ultra ata/133 pci card
Hi all, something very interesting. I booted debian on my old western digital
as primary master (on board ide) and my cd-rom as secondary master and cd-rw
as secondary slave. My siig ultra ata is installed and my seagate is
connected to it's primary and the drive is jumped as master.
The western digital has debian testing with kernel-image-2.4.24-1-k6.
Ok, Linux boots up perfect. It sees the seagate and I am able
to csfdisk and mkfs. as root I mounted /dev/hde and I can use the drive.
The drive works.
However, nothing has allowed me to boot the install CD and install a fresh
debian onto the new seagate. The install insists there are no hard disks.
I don't know what to do. I want the new seagate to be my boot drive.
is there another option?
Jim
>Hi all, I'm trying to install woody (3.0r1) from CD's on a PC with an
>AMD K6 II 500mhz and a brand new Seagate 80GB Barracuda Ultra ata/100 and a
>brand new SIIG ultra ata/133 pci controller. in addition to the new Seagate,
>the pc has an IO Magic CD-ROM and an LG CD-RW. Prior to buying the new Seagate and the new
>SIIG controller the pc ran fine with a 2GB Western Digital connected to the
>on board IDE.
>
>First I tested the the SIIG controller by connecting the old western digital to
>it's primary channel and connected the cd-rom and cd-re to it's secondary channel.
>I disabled the onboard ide in the BIOS. I booted. The SIIG sucessfully detected
>all drives and linux booted. Every worked.
>
>Then I took out the western digital and installed the new Seagate to the SIIG
>primary channel. I was hoping the SIIG was smart enough to boot from cd but
>it didn't. The SIGG detected all drives but wouldn't boot the cd.
>
>Now here's where I start my trial and error. I'm not sure what is the best
>configuration to use at this point. I removed the cd-rom and cd-rw from the
> SIIG and attached them back to the secondary onboard ide and re-enabled it in
>the BIOS. SIIG detected my new Seagate, the BIOS detected both CD drives and the
>Debian woody cd booted but the debian installation didn't see the new
>Seagate.
>
>Maybe the SIIG isn't even compatible with linux?
>Is there a boot floppy out there that I can use to get the installation going?
>How can I get the debian installation to see the Seagate?
>
>Jim
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