Most likely the kernel is not aware of the ATA100 interface yet. If you can, slot in a multi-I/O card with IDE i/f & use this to install. You'll have to seek out a kernel patch for the ATA100 controller. The reported "Promise" controller is the ATA100 chipset being detected but not recognized.
================================================== Paul Sims ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SpireLUG - the Chesterfield Linux User Group www.spirelug.org.uk ================================================== On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, lhomer wrote: > I have an asus-cubx motherboard with intel 440BX AGPset 100 MHZ W/ ATA100 and > intel p3750EF, 750MHZ cpu > I have two ide hard drives, either can boot windows with no difficulty > The windows system reports a scsi device described as a "Windows 95-98 > Promise Ultra 100 (tm) IDE controller (PDC20265) > When I try to boot redhat 6.2, it stops when I try to select the type of > installation and tells me I have no suitable medium (I guess no > hard drive) > When I try to boot the Debian SCSI version it tells me I have no hard drive. > It doesn't find a SCSI, and it seems to have picked the irq's and addresses > appropriate to the hard drives in ideo and ide1 listings, picks up my two > cdroms (hdc and hdd) and a zip drive (hdb) ok, but no hard drive. It also > reports the failure to initialize a WD-7000 SCSI card, despite a previous > line stating no scsi card was found. > The Debian IDE version also can't find a hard drive. > What should I try? >
