Just a thought...you could try the following procedure that I used for my
Promise Ultra66 card. The following procedure may allow MDK to see your PCI
fasttrak device and allow the installatiion to proceed. I can't make any
guarantees.
I'm using MDK 7.0-2 and a Promise Ultra66 IDE controller card. If you want
to do a fresh install of Linux onto a drive that's connected to a Promise
Ultra66 IDE controller card, follow these steps:
1) Use a Linux boot disk to boot your system (if you don't have one yet, you
can get one from http://www.toms.net/rb/)
2) At the Linux console prompt, type "cat /proc/pci" without the quotes.
3) This will spit out five I/O numbers for you (the ones that are not in
brackets)
4) Label those I/O numbers a, b, c, d, e (the first is "a"; the second is
"b"; etc.)
5) Now, restart your system and boot from the Linux installation CD
6) At the boot prompt, type "linux ide2=a,b+2 ide3=c,d+2" without the
quotes. Be sure to substitute the actual I/O numbers for the "letters"
shown above. The above worked for Linux Mandrake 7.0-2 (and 6.1).
>From: "Scott Bessler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [expert] install freeze problem
>Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 21:54:15 -0600
>
>ok i have a problem, i have the following hd's and controllers
>a promise fasttrak66 w/ 2 seagate barracuda ata66 drives on it. (and win2k)
>an adaptec 2940 with a seagate barracuda 50 (scsi) that i want to put linux
>on.
>however, when i boot from the mandrake iso cd (7.0-2) it freezes at the
>very
>beginning of the boot process after displaying a bit of info on "ide0"
>(which is the fasttrak66, which i know isnt supported in linux), now i dont
>need to access this from linux so i would just assume i could skip this
>detection and be ok. i tried using the boot paramter ide0=noprobe like
>this
>from the boot: prompt
>linux ide0=noprobe
>but it didnt do anything.. any help would be appreciated
>thanks.
>scott
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>
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