On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Alexander wrote:
AlexAp >Hello,
AlexAp > I'm having problems... BIG problems. I have been trying to install
Debian on my computer for the past 2 days - attempting to get it to install is
more like it. Here is what happens: Everything seems to go well up until the
point where I need to mount? a partition or whatever. The problem is this (and
I've tried various other Linux providers as well): None of the installation
programs will recognize my hard drive at all. I'm on a Gateway. 13.5 gig IDE
hard drive, and I have already partitioned it. Any help would GREATLY be
appreciated! Thanks.
one problem is you should use a better email client the word wrap on your
client makes it hard to read.
second, what kind of controller is the drive hooked up to? is it a DMA/66
controller? if so it must be on a normal DMA/33 controller to install
on. some boards(like my EPOX) have DMA/66 and DMA/33 onboard on the same
controller and the standard ide drivers work on it. also make sure the
bios recognizes the drive correctly.
look at the boot messages and see what it says. something like:
(from one of my EPOX systems)
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide0: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe008-0xe00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
ide1: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
hda: IBM-DJNA-370910, ATA DISK drive
hdb: IBM-DPTA-353750, ATA DISK drive
hdc: CD-ROM CDU4011, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdd: MATSHITA CR-588, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: IBM-DJNA-370910, 8693MB w/1966kB Cache, CHS=1108/255/63
hdb: IBM-DPTA-353750, 35772MB w/1961kB Cache, CHS=4560/255/63
hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.55
hdd: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
you may have to tell lilo at the boot prompt the specs of your drive, see
lilo docs/HOWTOs for that i have never had to so i dont know how to:/
nate
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