I've just got myself a machine with a Asus A7V600-X motherboard, which has VIA KT600 northbridge and VT8237 southbridge. It has SATA, but my hard disk is currently plugged into the regular IDE connector (with the regular UltraDMA 133/100/66 stuff), though I believe the disk might support SATA if I wanted to use it.
Anyway, what I wanted to do what to create sarge netinstall floppies and do a network install over the cable modem. But there's a tiny problem: The kernel on the boot floppies won't recognize the IDE controller. It doesn't seem to think there is one. The only message about IDE in the kernel log is the presumably-normal idebus 33MHz stuff. If I cat /proc/pci, the IDE controller is seen at 0.15.1 (while the SATA RAID controller is 0.15.0), but the kernel doesn't seem to even try to probe it during boot, much less actually find my hard drive. (The BIOS is happy seeing the hard disk though.) Is there anything I can do? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
