Yes, the better way to do this is to go into your BIOS and disable the motherboard' s IDE controller. That's the only way the Promise IDE controller can have hda.
Vincent Gaines wrote: > Subject: ATA-100, UDMA100, LILO > > I recently built a computer using the ASUS A7V motherboard, AMD 800, and > an "IBM Deskstar DTLA-307030 30GB UA100" hard drive. I wanted to > install Debian GNU/Linux on my hard drive (it uses the Promise ATA-100 > controller). > > 1) Upon reading the Debian Mail archives I surmised that the ATA-100 was > not supported by the > UDMA66 diskette install option from the ftp archiives. ( I also tried > it!) > > 2) I installed using the UDMA66 diskettes and CDROM binaries from linux > labs using my via udma66 controller ( I was later to find out to my > dismay that the system uses hda, hdb, hdc, and hdd for the via > controller and hde, hdf, hdg, and hdh for the promise ATA-100 > controller). > > 3) I applied the patches from www.linux-ide.org to a linux-2.4.0-test6 > kernel source from www.kernel.org and compiled my "new" kernel. > > 4.) When I booted on my custom kernel to my dismay I saw all devices > operable however, my promise ATA-100 contoller was using hde. As far as > I know there is no way to change this so. > > 5.) I hoped I could simply edit my lilo.conf file run liloconfig and > voila!.....No way! Since device > hde did not exist at that time ( I was using hda, hdb) this coiuld not > be. > > 6.) After many hours of strife ( and realizing that linux-2.4.0-test6 > has the drivers in it for ATA-100) I decided to install a 2 GB maxtor on > hda, put the custom kernel on it, and now Debian sees my hda, hdb > (CDROM) and hde. > > 7.) I will now have to adjust my lilo.conf to boot windows 98 (hde1). > > There must be a better way to do this, someone please tell me . > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
