Actually the opposite is true.
The ASUS A7V has an On Board Promise ATA100 controller.
This controller is supported in 7.2 but it is the PCI controller that it
looks for, with an on board controller the driver is not loaded and therefor
the hd is not seen.
civileme in an earlier post listed an action that can be taken which should
allow the loading of the necessary driver.
Charles
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Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 5:44 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nicole davies; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] hda: no response (reseting drive)
It looks like your problem is that your hard drive is plugged into a
controller card and not the motherboard. I'm not sure how to get Linux to
recognise this (though I'm sure there's a way), but perhaps you could plug
the HDD into the motherboard slot and try that, at least until you get the
card going.
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 20:43, nicole davies 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
>
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