[lug] Trouble installing Debian

Glenn Murray gmurray at Mines.EDU
Wed Oct 11 14:13:45 MDT 2000


On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, J. Wayde Allen wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Glenn Murray wrote:
> > Weirdness.  I took the case apart.  The hard drive is a Western Digital
> > IDE drive connected to a Promise Technology Ultra66 PCI card.
> > ...
> > Promise Technology Inc Ultra 66 IDE controller (IRQ 09)
> 
> You have to figure out what software you need to talk to the disk
> controller you actually have.  That will probably require some web
> searching.  I'd try a boolean web search with your controller card's name
> and Linux.  Hopefully that might net you a few clues.  Once you figure out
> what module you need to use, you need to determine the options that need
> to be set.  This is usually done during installation when you are asked
> what special modules to load.  You will also be asked if there are any
> special options to set.  Here you would probably type irq=09 or something
> similar.

I suspected the "simple" was that kind of "simple".

The Promise Technology website has a beta driver for Linux.  The
readme says

"Native Linux support has been available for the Ultra66 since kernel
version 2.2.10."

As I am running 2.2.17, it seems it should be recognized.  The readme
goes on to give instructions to install the driver from floppy in 26
simple steps.  Is there any point in doing this if the kernel can't
recognize it anyway?


Thanks,
Glenn






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