I'm trying to add an ide hard drive, and install gentoo, on a linux system I previously had working fine with scsi only. I want to use ide for additional storage and the scsi for the os, so I need support for both. The first controller I tried was the rocket raid 100 ata controller, it did detect my ide drive (in its bios) at boot, but made both the adaptech.s and bare.i kernels freeze while booting slack. It froze upon this output: ide3: BM-DMA at 0xdc08-0xdc0f, BIOS settings: hdg
io, hdh
io (accept for the 0x numbers, which I don't remember). It also froze every other distro I tried (I'm sure with the same problem, but gentoo had no text output as it booted), and windows would even beggin to start. (note: I'm using a poweredge 2400/600). This card is probably has come compadability issues with the poweredge.... I then tried a maxtor sata 150 controller (which had 1 ide port). It detects the hard drive at startup, but in both slack and gentoo there are no drives detected accept for the scsi (when scsi kernel is selected of course). Is there not support for ide drives when I load scsi kernels (I have assumed that there is always ide support)? Do I have another incompatible disk controller (although the boot goes fine with the maxtor controller on gentoo or slack). Any suggestions on how I could get my ide drive to work are greatly appreciated.
(note: I have verified it is not a bad disk, ide cable, or pci slot.)
