Re: Get install to Recognize Hard Drive [attached to Promise Ultra 66]

2000-06-20 Thread Cody Cutrer
your kernal as an attachment. Thanks. - Original Message - From: John B. Brodie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 9:47 PM Subject: RE: Get install to Recognize Hard Drive [attached to Promise Ultra 66] This may

Re: Promise Ultra 66

2000-03-19 Thread Brian Lavender
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 02:34:16PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen Ray wrote: On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 21:32:35 -0800, Brian Lavender wrote: but it just flashes the characters 2FA: That's from the Master Boot Record program. I guess you are correct about this, because I took the drive and

Re: Promise Ultra 66

2000-03-19 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Ray == Ray J.H.M. writes: Ray On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 21:32:35 -0800, Brian Lavender wrote: but it just flashes the characters 2FA: Ray That's from the Master Boot Record program. I also tried booting with a floppy with IDE support, but it won't detect it

Re: Promise Ultra 66

2000-03-19 Thread Percival
It really sucks, basically. I found out that I had to track down the manufacturer of my large hard drive, get the specs from them, and then pass them on to cfdisk/fdisk and ignore the warnings that those programs gave me. I also remember that one of them sinply would not work (fdisk, I

Re: Promise Ultra 66

2000-03-19 Thread Brian Lavender
Once again, how do you specify the CHS specs for cfdisk or fdisk? brian On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 01:37:17PM -0800, Percival wrote: It really sucks, basically. I found out that I had to track down the manufacturer of my large hard drive, get the specs from them, and then pass them on to

Re: Promise Ultra 66

2000-03-19 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 02:02:11PM -0800, Brian Lavender wrote: Once again, how do you specify the CHS specs for cfdisk or fdisk? You have to go into Expert mode. The command is 'x' with fdisk. I don't remember for cfdisk. -- ++ | Eric G.

Re: Promise Ultra 66

2000-03-19 Thread Adam Di Carlo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes: The bootfloppies for Slink don't handle UDMA66. You need to use bootfloppies with a kernel on them that's patched for UDMA66 support (using the IDE patches from ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/). I'm not sure if potato's

Re: Promise Ultra 66

2000-03-19 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Adam == Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes: The bootfloppies for Slink don't handle UDMA66. You need to use bootfloppies with a kernel on them that's patched for UDMA66 support (using the IDE patches from

Promise Ultra 66

2000-03-18 Thread Brian Lavender
Is anyone using the Promise Ultra66 controller with Linux? I put my drive on it, and I get nothing when I boot the machine. The card shows on the screen with the devices, but it just flashes the characters 2FA: on the screen. If I press return, it just repeats the characters. I disabled my IDE

Re: Promise Ultra 66

2000-03-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 21:32:35 -0800, Brian Lavender wrote: but it just flashes the characters 2FA: That's from the Master Boot Record program. I also tried booting with a floppy with IDE support, but it won't detect it either. The bootfloppies for Slink don't handle UDMA66. You need