On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, George Frederick Viamontes wrote:
> Hi,
> I got a new motherboard (Asus A7V) that has the ultra-ata
> support on the motherboard. I am able to get to the
> installation screen for debian, but it does not see that I
> have a hard drive. Is there a boot argument I need to pass
> so that debian will recognize ultra-ata drives? Or do I need
> to install it with my hard drive plugged into a regular ide
> socket and then load some type of module to enable ultra-ata
> support?
Hi George,
I had this same problem just a week ago with the same
motherboard. You don't specify which Debian release you have,
but I think Potato doesn't have support for ATA-100 in the
kernel. You're on the right track though:
i) Put your HD on the normal udma66 bus and then you can
install Debian.
ii) Get and apply the ATA-100 kernel patches from
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick
to your kernel sources, compile, and install.
I haven't personally done ii) yet, so I can't give you more
specific advice there. Maybe woody has the new patches, anyone?
Regards,
Joonas Pihlaja
P.S. Hello to the list from a new Debian-user!
