Thanks for the reply.
Weirdness: I took the case apart. The hard drive is a Western Digital IDE drive connected to a Promise Technology Ultra66 PCI card. Nothing is plugged into the motherboard's primary ide controller, which explains why setup doesn't see it. Besides the information below, Win2K also reports that there is a SCSI controller: Promise Technology Inc Ultra 66 IDE controller (IRQ 09) The Promise Technology website has a beta driver for Linux. The readme says "Native Linux support has been available for the Ultra66 since kernel version 2.2.10." As I am running 2.2.17, it seems it should be recognized. The readme goes on to give instructions to install the driver from floppy in 26 simple steps. Is there any point in doing this if the kernel can't recognize it anyway? I am using the CheapBytes CDs. Thank you for your help. Glenn On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 09:50:13AM -0600, Glenn Murray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm trying to install Debian 2.2 on two graduate students' machines. The > install boots from the CD but is unable to find the hard drive. > > The machines are: > > Dell Dimension XPS T800r, BIOS version A09 > > Setup reports the zip and cd on the secondary IDE controller, > and Win2K reports the hard drive controller as > > WDC WD20 4BA SCSI Disk Device > > Neither of the two boot options "aic7xxx=..." helps. Who's CD (there is no "Debian" CD, only packages by other organizations), and what version of Debian? What boot messages and/or error output do you get? What SCSI card do you have? -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself
