PCI ATA/IDE card issue revisited

[Cyber Source]

Is this happening /AFTER/ you install these systems from this card?

Timothy Domst wrote:

> I have made a Frankenstein soon-to-be-Linux box that I want to use as 
> a firewall only.  The mobo won't recognize drives off its built-in ATA 
> plugs, so I got a PCI card from CompUSA.  The BIOS goes through 
> without finding drives, and then the PCI card BIOS comes on after and 
> recognizes the cd-rom and HD.  It also recognizes that there's a boot 
> disk in the cd-rom drive.  Then it goes Verifying DMI pool data 
> ................   and it doesn't find the system disk.
>
> This has been covered recently, but I have a hard time figuring out 
> which boot sequence to use.  I can use SCSI,C,A or CDROM,C,A or others 
> and I will get the two drives and boot CD to be recognized, but no 
> system disk later.  I used SuSE 9.0 and Mandrake 9.2 and they both do 
> the same thing.  It's a Gigabyte board, so the BIOS can't be so crazy 
> that I wouldn't be able to find a boot selection that would work.
>
> Any ideas?