[3416] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Promise Ultra100 card
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Fri Mar 30 10:43:29 2001
To: "Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 30 Mar 2001 10:43:07 -0500
In-Reply-To: "Thomas H. Grayson"'s message of "Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:45:19 -0500"
Message-ID: <sjm3dbvp8j8.fsf@rcn.ihtfp.org>
Red Hat 6.2 does not support ATA-100. If you want to install, you have
to use the onboard IDE controller.
-derek
"Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@MIT.EDU> writes:
> In my PC I have two hard disks connected to a Promise Ultra100 card that
> provides ATA-100 support plus two IDE channels in addition to the two on the
> motherboard. When I try to install Linux-Athena, the installer claims that I
> have no hard disks that it can use for the install and won't let me proceed
> further. If my disks showed up at all they would probably appear as hde and
> hdg (hd[a-d] are on the on-board IDE controller). Does anyone have any
> suggestions on how to get the installer to recognize my disks (or at least the
> one I want to install on) apart from putting one of the disks on the onboard
> IDE controller? I resist that idea because the onboard controller is only
> ATA-66; I want to install on an ATA-100 disk, plus the performance of the
> Ultra100 card is purportedly better than the onboard controller.
>
> Thanks,
> Tom Grayson
>
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