Hi, I am an experienced debian installer, user. I have installed debian about 30-40 times on various machines. I have been trying the last 2 days to install on a sata drive on a machine with a Promise Sata Tx4 4 channel controller controller as well as an old adaptec ata raid 2400a.
Till now for simplicity I have installed on PATA IDE drives for system and used sata for storage. I want to install debian to a seagate 750G sata drive, but both the debian 4.0r5 etch installer and also the latest nightly build of the lenny installer from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ don't recognize my hard drive, they only see the data drive, in this case the adaptec ata raid 2400a. I checked, and the BIOS certainly recognizes the drive, and the bios from both the Promise Tx4 and Adaptec 2400a post on the screen. I want to avoid having to install on a pata drive and mirror the install to the sata drive. I know that the SATA TX4 is debian compatible ( I use it on about 10 machines just not for the system boot, just as data). I think that the installer does not have the proper kernel module. I like the TX4 controller card, it is very versatile and relatively cheap. Thanks, Mitchell Laks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
