Re: hard drive NOT found during install!

Thanks for the suggestion, I didn't even notice the bf2.4 flavour of woody. Anyway, I tried it, unfortunately it didn't work. I would have thought that by 2.4.18 that they would include support for the AEC6280. The kernel-config said that it supported aec62xx, I guess 80 doesn't come in that r

Re: hard drive NOT found during install!

Waheed Islam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Could you PLEASE help! during installation... my ide controller card is not being recognised by both, potato and woody. It's an Acard AEC6280 Controller (no RAID, includes BIOS). The card is new and works perfectly in Win98, both my primary and sec

Thanks - Re: hard drive NOT found during install!

Thanks for the help and research dude. I've already tried the UDMA66 and IDEPCI flavors of Debian, unfortunately, no success. I'll probably get a friend or someone to compile the "drivers" supplied by ACard and see what I can make of it. If that doesn't work, I think I'll have to sell this ca

Re: hard drive NOT found during install!

> Hi, > > Could you PLEASE help! > > during installation... > > my ide controller card is not being recognised by both, potato and woody. > It's an Acard AEC6280 Controller (no RAID, includes BIOS). my best suggestion is to try the IDE install disks: http://saens.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/

hard drive NOT found during install!

Hi, Could you PLEASE help! during installation... my ide controller card is not being recognised by both, potato and woody. It's an Acard AEC6280 Controller (no RAID, includes BIOS). The card is new and works perfectly in Win98, both my primary and secondary hdd's are connected to it. The d