> > Weirdness: I took the case apart. The hard drive is a Western Digital > > IDE drive connected to a Promise Technology Ultra66 PCI card. Nothing > > is plugged into the motherboard's primary ide controller, which explains > > why setup doesn't see it. > > Which setup? Debian's installer or the BIOS setup utility? If the > latter, you should get a screen prompt for SCSI setup. If not, find > your system documentation and find out how to get to this. At some > point, you're going to be booting from SCSI and need to have this > configured. > > > Besides the information below, Win2K also reports that there is a SCSI > > controller: > > > > Promise Technology Inc Ultra 66 IDE controller (IRQ 09)
Ignore what win2k says, it's dumb. You have an IDE controller, not a SCSI one. > > 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? I am using the CheapBytes CDs. Use the files from: ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/udma66/ or your local mirror. They should also be on the cd (same directory). Matthew
