I'm trying to jump ship from Mandrake to SuSE, but having problems with the installation. Briefly: I have a dual Celeron-400 system, ASUS P2B-DS MB, 256MB, NCR SCSI adapter, Diamond Viper V550 video, and (the problem) Promise ATA100 controller (PCI card, not onboard). There are two hard drives (hda and hdb) and a CD-ROM (hdc) on the IDE chains and two ~40MB ATA100 drives (hde and hdf) on the ATA100 chain1. BIOS finds all of these with no difficulty. Just after Christmas last year I installed Mandrake 8.1 and it found and handled hde (hdf wasn't then installed) with no problems at all. When trying to install SuSE 8.0 Professional the boot initially recognises hde and hdf but then starts to give error messages, including a warning that I should be using an 80-pin cable (I am), before disabling DMA on hde and hdf and then finally givcing up on them altogether. By the time I get to the recommendations for partitions (there are no other boot problems) only hda and hdb are visible. I've tried all of the boot command-line options mentioned in the Promise ATA100 mini HOWTO, to no avail. I've tried going through the text based install process, but can't find an appropriate module to add. Does anyone know of a workaround? Does the install CD set simply not contain support for the card (or the IIRC PDC20267 chipset it uses)? I am rather disappointed, given that (as I mentioned above) Mandrake coped with this hardware over 6 months ago... Any advice will be gratefully received. -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. | |email: dbarker@camosun.bc.ca | | |phone: +1 250 370 4452 | Hermann Scherchen. |