[lug] Trouble installing Debian

[Carl.Wagner at Level3.com]

Have you tried to disable the system board IDE devices?
If you are not using them that would be the first thing I would try.
I think the motherboard controller uses IRQ 14 for the first controller
and IRQ 15 for the second one. You may have run out of interrupts (plug and
play fun), have a IRQ conflict, have a I/O port conflict, or a dma conflict. 
One of those could prevent Linux from detecting your controller.

Carl.

"J. Wayde Allen" wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Glenn Murray wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> It seems like it should be all right.
> 
> > 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?
> 
> I can't really answer that one.  Obviously your current setup isn't
> working so ...?  As far as I can tell from here your options are:
> 
>    - Change the IDE controller and see if that helps (I think you said the
>      controller on the motherboard is not being used.  Maybe you should
>      try using it?)
> 
>    - Try installing the new driver and see if that fixes the problem
> 
>    - Check to see if there is anything about the IDE controller in the
>      system bios that might be affecting you, and turn off plug-and-play
>      services, etc..  In other words, simplify the configuration as much
>      as possible.
> 
>    - Bring the box to tonight's meeting.  One of us might be able to help
> 
>    - Scrutinize the bootup splash screen for any clues, do more research
>      into the card and see if you can identify any special boot settings
>      that might fix the problem
> 
>    - Pull out everything except the controller card and see if that helps?
> 
> - Wayde
>   (wallen at lug.boulder.co.us)
> 
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