Re: tlug: Gateway P3-500 is freaking me out (install)

["Scott M. Stone" <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Christopher Sekiya wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 10:04:12AM -0800, Scott M. Stone wrote:
> 
> > well, according to /proc/pci it *is* some kind of Promise controller, but
> > why doesn't the system's own BIOS recognize the drives either?
> 
> Promise controllers have their own BIOS.  System BIOS usually knows how to
> probe only its onboard interfaces.
> 
> I have a Promise Ultra66 controller on my FTP server, and found that I needed
> to apply a patch (http://www.tuug.net/software/pu66.diff) to 2.2 kernels to
> get proper detection.

so how do you install onto a disk on one of those controllers?  I'm
thinking just put the disk on the regular bus, install, apply patch, then
use the promise controller, or something like that.

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Scott M. Stone, CCNA <sstone@example.com>
UNIX Systems and Network Engineer
Taos - The SysAdmin Company 

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