My small problem has been solved. Thank you for all the help and support. I am now able to install and run off a hard drive although the installation named the drive "hdg", and I can't boot from that drive just yet..I also can no longer see it in a windows directory..small matters. Apparently my board is just strange enough so that even Suse 7.0 can't recognize the drives on my board. I found a recent fix on the Suse site that worked. I would like to get back to using Debian. Do these fixes usually propagate to other installations very rapidly? Details at: http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/a7vpromise.html ----- Original Message ----- From: lhomer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 6:54 PM Subject: Re: Fw: [PLUG] hopeful new Linux recruit > I tried the debian udma installation from rescue and root floppies with a > single windows bootable hard drive (WDC AC34 300L) and it couldn't find the > hard drive. I see my zip drive (hdb), my two cdroms (hdc,hdd), hda is > identified with ide0 and ide0 with irq 14, but no named drives or ide > controllers associated with ide0. In Windows the "Win95-98 Promise Ultra100 > IDE controller (PDC20265)" is assigned irq 10. My suse installation > identifies irq 10 with an unknown mass storage device, but also claims I > have no hard drive. Thanks for the advice and interest. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: David Bridges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 10:23 AM > Subject: Re: Fw: [PLUG] hopeful new Linux recruit > > > > Don Buchholz wrote: > > > > > Do you see all devices listed in the POST messages when the system > boots? > > > > > > The ASUS CUBX motherboard has 2 IDE controllers, and 4 IDE connectors. > > > To enable the 3rd, 4th connectors you must enable the on-board 'SCSI' > > > controller. (Yes, it says SCSI in the BIOS setup, but it's really IDE. > > > > > > Thank you to the ENU tech. who told me that "SCSI" means "2nd IDE > controller" > > > in ASUS/CUBX lingo. :-) > > > > > > > Actually my cdrom drive and my cdrw show up during the initial post and > > the hard disk shows up whenever the Promise controller scans for > > devices. When the hard disk is hooked up to the ATA100 controller the > > disk does not show up in the BIOS. > > > > Here is the links to boot and root floppies that you can download and > > see if the disk is recognized. They are for Debian and you would need > > other disks or cdroms to actually install. Booting with them would let > > you see if it an UDMA issue. > > > > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44 > /udma66/rescue.bin > > (boot) > > > > > > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44 > /udma66/root.bin > > (root) > > > > Hope this helps > > David > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
