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RedHat: Install sees PCI IDE card but no
Name: Rootaah Date: March 8, 2001 at 18:43:46 Pacific
Comment:
I have a PIII700 system with a CMD PCI IDE card installed. All my hard drives are connected to that. I can get RedHat to begin the installation from CDROM, but about 2 minutes into the GUI install when it needs to hit the hard drive....it fails and tells me no hard drives can be found. I don't understand because during the initial boot I can see it detect the PCI IDE card.
WTF? Help! I don't want to put my hard drives back on the motherboard.
Name: /dev/null Date: March 9, 2001 at 15:10:17 Pacific
Reply:
The PCI IDE card you see detected is at the BIOS level, it never shows up in RedHat. Unfortunatly, unless you can find a driver for it from CMD (not likely, BTW), you will not be able to use the PCI IDE card.
I am guessing that the card you are trying to use is either a DMA-66 or DMA-100 card. The only recommendation I can make is to try using a motherboard chipset that has DMA-66 built-in (such as the VIA 694X or Intel 820). If you need DMA-100, the only controllers that I know work are the Promise brand, but dont expect them to actually work at DMA-100 speeds.
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Response Number 2
Name: slvrfox564 Date: March 11, 2001 at 20:34:26 Pacific
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I use a Maxtor ATA 100 PCI IDE controller card. Redhat 7 will not work on these kinds of cards. The beta release of Redhat Fisher is said to work on it but I gave up with that several months ago. I purchased SuSE Linux Pro 7.1. It has this support built-in. I would check the HCL on the SuSE site before I bought it though, www.suse.com.
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