how to boot from CDROM drive through belkin ultra ata/133 pci card

Yasushi Okubo yasushi at cabm.rutgers.edu
Fri Feb 17 16:17:36 UTC 2006


Hi experts

Origianlly installed IDE controller on the motehrboad  seemed 
malfunctioning on one of our desktops, so I added a Belkin Ultra ATA/133 
PCI card [F5U098] to an open IDE slot. 
Two slots [primary/slave] on the card are now connected to CDROM and 
hard drive with IDE cables.
On boot, it does not detect any primary/slave drive, then Belkin RAID  
controller kicks in by asking if I want to setup RAID device. It 
acutally searches primary/slave channel on the new card and finds both 
CDROM and hard drive before asking RAID setup.  After I gets out of raid 
setup or simply ignores radi setup,  the boot agent on desktop cannot 
detect any devices connected to Belkin PCI card. 

I just want to boot from a CDROM drive and install redhat to the hard 
drive through Belkin card.

Could you advise me how to setup bios or where to  look into ?   I 
played with DMA/PCI IRQs and device settings on original BIOS, but it 
did not help at all.

Thanks,
yasushi




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