Too New.
I just checked the menuconfig option of 2.4.18 and the Promise series of controls are listed up to PDC20268. The other kernel I have on my machine, 2.5.24 has support for it, but of course its a raging beta kernel. When I compiled it, the drivers for my initio scsi card killed the compile. You can install on the ata-33 channel, compile a beta tree kernel, or 2.4.19-rc1 (which has the support too), then change /etc/fstab on the drive to reflect that mount partitions are going to be on /dev/hde1 instead of /dev/hda1, this is assuming you have 2 normal ata33 ide channels and 1 ata133 channel. Also change lilo or grub to reflect the new changes, power down the machine, swap the drives, boot it up, cross your fingers.
Basically, it'll be a hastle until a distro releases on 2.4.19, which is still in release candidate stages and now that the beta series has taken off Marcello has slowed down on stable tree releases... in short, don't hold your breath, it might be a couple months before RH or Mandy or whatever gets to release on a new stable kernel.
Cheers,
Finegan
From the 2.4.19-rc1 changelog:
<marcelo@plucky.distro.conectiva> (02/03/22 1.220.1.24)
Add Promise 20276 to supported IDE controllers
Or... you can use any given machine to compile a custom kernel, make a bootdisk with it, and then install after using the bootdisk to boot to the redhat CD... There are a lot of options... none of them are simple...
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