I have one instance of debian working on an ide drive and slackware installed on the serial ATA drive instance. I don't know how connections were done on this machine since I didn't install the serial ATA drive but can find out. On Sun, 26 Feb 2012, Camale?n wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:39:36 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > I had a successful install of slackware 13.0 on my nVidia CK804 Serial > > ATA drive. Before doing so, I had a failed install of debian on that > > drive with debian causing much banging of the drive before throwing > > drive detection failed message and dropping me into media change dialog. > > You mean Debian installer was not able to detect your hard disk? > > > Of course, the cd door wouldn't open so doing alt-f2 allowed me to > > eject but dropping back to alt-f1 I'm back to the media change dialog > > where the same disk as is already in the cd drive is being requested. I > > can't break out to main menu so can't adjust down to low priority > > messages or turn on debugging logs either. > > Installer dmesg logs can be accessed at one tty (I never remember where > exactly, tty4 or tty6), maybe you can try that to see what's going on. > > Anyway, I would start over the installalation process. > > > Finally I can't get my local version of reportbug to connect to the > > server either. > > Mmm, does that mean you already were able to install Debian? > > As per reportbug, you can manually configure it to customize your e-mail > server settings. > > > I was told I ought to file a bug against the debian > > kernel since the drivers my disk needs are in the kernel but for some > > reason don't work. This is the lspci -v output from slackware 13.0 too. > > 00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev a2) > > Kernel driver in use: AMD_IDE > > 00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller > > (rev a3) 00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA > > Controller (rev a3) > > (...) > > Mmm... it seems there are two set of controllers, the first one with pure > IDE and the latter with some kind of SATA-IDE emulation. > > I guess you have connected the hard disk to the IDE port, right? Or is > that the optical DVD/CD? OTOH, Slackware seems to load "AMD_IDE" kernel > module for the IDE port, but I'm not sure if Debian use the same > module :-? > > Greetings, > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net> <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.bsf.2.01.1202261203010.11...@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg
