On Tuesday 19 December 2000 10:43, you wrote:
> I am very much a beginner, having just purchase the
> linux pocket book 3rd edition.
>
> I am trying to load Mandrake 7.2 but it doesn't seem
> to be able to identify my hard disk. The booklet
> mentions Mandrake can partition the HD during
> installation. When booting the mandrake CD I get the
> response 'hda: no response (reseting drive)'. It then
> goes through the installation but fails when it
> reaches the partitioning stage.
>
> I have an ASUS A7V motherboard with an AMD 700 CPU and
> a 30 Gig IBM-DLTA-307030 hard disk using WinME Promise
> Ultra100 (tm)IDE controller (PDC20265).
>
> Can anyone give me some directions ?
>
>
> Cheers Paul
>
That one has its Promise controller at an address other than where we are
looking for it.
Try F1 at the splash screen
then
linux ide2=0x9000 0x8002
Civileme
