On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 05:22:38PM -1000, Julio C. Gutierrez wrote: > I have an old PC and the primary drive broke down, so I bough a new one > @ compusa but they only have new drives that are ATA/100 or ATA/113. so > I couldn't attach it to the primary or secondary IDE channels, and I > already had a PCI ATA/100 adapter so I attached it to it.
That should be a cable problem. The ATA/100 drivers should run (but slower) on the old IDE controller. > I was successful installing WIN2K on that drive, but I need to > also install linux on a secondary partition. I've tried RH, > Mandrake and Slack with no success all of them go crazy and I > get kernel panic when I try to tell linux which drive to use. Are these old distributions you are running? The boot cd may not have the Promise drivers built-in. -Vince
