two promise controllers

I'm trying to add a promise fasttrak 66 to my existing system.  it also has an onboard promise controller.Without the ft66, the 4 drives on the onboard promise work fine and are hde-hdh.  When I put the ft66 in, the drives get seen during boot as hdi-hdm; however they are not accessible in any way.

installing sarge/sid from cd

I have d\l both CD1 of sarge and sid, but neither will boot correctly. I get a syslinux 1.75 prompt, but there does not seem to be a way to select different versions. If you hit enter, you just get the continous looping error after init starts of /usr/src/debian-installer/tools/cdebconf/src/