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

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

On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Shuzo Ishihara wrote:

> I bought GP7-600 last year (around Dec.?) from Gateway, and tried to install
> Redhat 6.1 , but I could not.
> 
> I think that your IDE is Promise Ultra ATA 66, and its card is slotted in
> the PCI. First, please make sure that the PC has Promise Ultra ATA 66 card.
> 
> I got boot image file and other filesfrom Promise(http://www.promise.com/),
> and tried to install Redhat.
> On the way, install procedure hanged up.

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?

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

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