im having a similar problem but im wanting to use debian on a ATA100 drive my specs: asus a7v mainboard duron 800 processor ibm ata100 30gb hdd
debian just wont recognise the hard drive for a install adding the experimental promise ata100 support under kernel 2.4 didnt seem to make any difference Scott ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Keller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 4:10 PM Subject: Installing Debian with ATA100 > (I apologize if this post is breaking any etiquette or anything -- I > haven't had time to really lurk as I'm excited about trying to get Debian > installed). > > My setup is as follows: > > I'm using an Asus A7V motherboard with an on-board ATA100 controller. I > have two hard drives hooked up: one on the primary ATA100 controller, one > on the standard IDE controller (both are set as masters and are by > themselves -- the CD-ROM is on the secondary IDE controller by itself). > > I want to install Debian on the standard IDE drive, leaving Win98 on my > ATA100 drive. The problem is that the fdisk program that ran during the > install (which I aborted) only recognized the standard drive. This would > be fine by me (I don't need access to the ATA100 drive while in Debian) > except that I'm worried about how I'll be able to dual-boot using LILO this > way. > > Any thoughts? Am I just worrying over nothing? > > Thanks in advance for any replies, > > Stephen Keller > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >