Hi, I have been trying the last 2 days to install etch or lenny onto a sata drive that resides on a Promise Sata Tx4 4 channel controller.
However the etch or even the latest lenny nightly build network-installer do not recognize the sata drive. In the past I have installed debian on PATA IDE drives for system and used sata drives only for storage. I am using a seagate 750G sata drive, and both the debian 4.0r5 etch installer and also the latest nightly build of the lenny installer from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ : neither recognize my hard drive, they only see some other drives on the system, in this case the an old adaptec ata raid 2400a. I checked, and the BIOS certainly recognizes the drive, and the bios from both the Promise Tx4 andAdaptec 2400a post on the screen. I have set the system to boot from the cdrom then from the seagate drive on the Promise Tx4 pci card. I want to avoid having to install first on a pata drive and then mirror the install to the sata drive. I know that the SATA TX4 is debian compatible ( I use it on about 10 machines for data storage). I think that the debian-installer does not have the proper kernel module sata_promise (???). I like the TX4 controller card, it is very versatile and relatively cheap. Is there a way to load kernel modules for the Tx4 (ie ata_generic and sata_promise) into the running kernel of the installer, so it will recognize this hard drive? I have posted this a few days ago to the debian-boot list, but perhaps because there is more traffic on debian-user sorry for the cross post. ON the other hand, I feel more at home on debian user list... Thanks, Mitchell Laks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
