Hi! I´ve the same board installed. You just can boot either Windows or from your Debian CDs. In windows use the Systeminformation programm (win98) to finds out the E/A and IRQ Values the controller uses. The same things can be looked up under Linux ind the /proc/pci file, which i find is more clear to see. I use the biggest and the third biggest E/A numbers. When you have got these numbers you type into the linux boot prompt: linux ide2=0x<value>, 0x<value>, <IRQvalue> (at my system linux ide2=0x8800, 0x8000, 10) after that the kernel should be able to find the hdd. You can append this line to your lilo.conf. Take care with new PnP devices. I installed a new soundcard after linux was running, and the E/A values of the Promise controller had been changed, and i couldn´t boot linux again until deinstalling the card, booting linux, disabling or changing the append line in lilo.conf and booting with the new values.
HTH Mathias > onboard Promise ATA-100 controller. Now I can't install Debian, because > it > isn't find any hard disk, it isn't find the controller (Windows reads it > as > SCSI-controller). > > > Thanks, > > Sipi -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net