My understanding now is that I have a Promise Technology card for an ultra-ATA/66 (IDE) interface, and I need a Linux driver for this card. The ...disks-i386/current/udma66/ directory contains three files, viz.:
drivers.tgz install.bat linux but no Readme, so I am a little at a loss. The drivers tarball includes an install.sh script and from puzzling over it and install.bat it seems that the install.bat script is to be run somewhere it can find dosutils; it will create a boot floppy (?) which will apparently run the script to install the kernel modules "onto the root filesystem." [Confusion: I have no root filesystem, yet; does it mean a root filesystem on the floppy? But the drivers tarball won't fit on the floppy, etc.] My question is: how do I use the files above with the installation CDs so that the installation program can find the hard drive? Thanks for any help, Glenn On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Matthew Dalton wrote: > > > 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 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
