[luau] Installing Linux on a disk on a ata/100 pci card

[MonMotha]

Julio C. Gutierrez wrote:
> Greetings All.
> Does any one know if it is possible to install linux on a drive that is
> attached to a pci ATA/100 card?
> 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.
>  
> 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.
> 
> Any ideas?
> BTW. I'm using the Promise ATA/100 adapter from Maxtor..
> 
> TIA.
> 
> Julio
> 

What's the first few lines of the panic (everything before the actual backtrace 
and and register dumps), and when EXACTLY does it happen.  Does it happen during 
startup (before the installer starts), when you tell it what drive to partition, 
when you write the partition table, etc.

Does it even detect the drive (check the startup messages for a detection, you 
may way to use dmesg on the emergency console of your installer, alt+f2 with 
slackware).

--MonMotha