On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Adam F. Bogacki wrote: > It could be that it is bacause I am booting from 2.2r2 - the 2.2.19 kernel > which does not > support UDMA100 or Ultra100 TX2 controllers, unlike the 2.4.14 kernel on the > machine, which > is malfunctioning. > > Lastly, this may not be a purely Debian problem as I tried a test boot from > a RH 7.1 disk > onto 'hde' and had the same result: it only recognised hda and hdb, asking > me where on the > (already installed) hdb drive I wished to put my swap partition.
1) Try a RH 7.2 boot disk (you should be able to get one from ftp.planetmirror.com.au/pub/redhat/redhat-7.2/en/os/i386/images/ as this will include a 2.4 kernel which will find the UDMA controller. 2) The controller should operate in a compatability mode, you just have to tell the kernel it's there. From memory something like... ide2=0xb8000,19 in the kernel parameters. At the lilo prompt, enter 'linux ide2=0xb8000,19' if that's the address/IRQ. To find this out you can do cat /proc/pci |more and look for your UDMA controller. -- ---<GRiP>--- Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz Phone/fax: 02 4950 1194 Mobile: 0408 686 201 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
