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

Vince Hoang luau at ml.altern8.net
Sun May 4 20:04:01 PDT 2003


On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 05:22:38PM -1000, Julio C. Gutierrez wrote:
> 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.

That should be a cable problem. The ATA/100 drivers should run
(but slower) on the old IDE controller.

> 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.

Are these old distributions you are running? The boot cd may not
have the Promise drivers built-in.

-Vince



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