Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Hasibul Haque wrote: > > > I have a quantum fireball ST6 IDE hardrive with Pentium II 233 cpu. I > > have 1 primary partion with win95 and 2 logical drives - one of them > > is empty for linux install the other one has windows nt. > > I am able to boot the rescue floppy but at the menu when I choose > > 'partition hard disk' I am getting a message thats saying hard drive > > could not be detected and to check cables or change driver settings > > at boot: prompt or load a driver. Thanks. > > Hmmm... I've never had a problem detecting an IDE drive, but I've never > seen a Pentium II system up close. > > Dale, do you have any ideas? Could there be a driver incompatibility > with the new Pentium II motherboards? I have not yet heard any examples > of people running Linux on Pentium II systems. > > Hasib, I suggest that you search through the newsgroups > comp.os.linux.hardware and/or comp.os.linux.setup, comp.os.linux.misc for > references to Pentium II systems, and see if there is any useful info. > > Thanks. Syrus. > > -- > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UCSD Physics Dept. > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Is this one of the new ultra dma drives (33 mb/s). I don`t know if they are supported yet. It should not be a problem with the motherboard. You should do a search on ultra dma drives and see what you find. -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
