How to ignore SATA on boot?
 

Greetings;
I had major problems installing redhat9 on my workstation, but after forcing the issue, I have an install. HOWEVER, I cannot boot to linux without going into my Bios and changing my IDE setting to ignore my SATA drives (they are for XP, but I can't get rid of them). I have a seperate (the only) IDE drive for linux.

IDE Hard drive Maxtor 6Y160P0 Ultra IDE 160 GB HD (entirely for linux) on HDA (master). MB is Asus P4C800-E (i have disabled the promise controller, the sata drives are on the southbridge Intel ICH5R).

The drives I want to ignore (preferably I would have a driver for these, but I have completely given up on that possibility) are:
2xMaxtor SATA 150 GB (Raid0) - used only for XP

The linux boot hangs (if I don't disable the SATA controllers) at:

ide0 at 0xefe0-0xefe7, 0xefae on irq 11.

Presumably the ICH5R controller is loaded on irq 11 previously.


Assistance is always well received. I'm pretty green so no worries about obvious suggestions. Thanks.

When I was installing Slackware 9 with SATA the install would hang at the same point... I got around it by putting the drives into 'compatibility' mode.. which in my bios equates to Legacy mode SATA + PATA. It then folds my 4 IDE channels into 2 and everything works fine (well.. almost.. slack for some reason can only see the primary sata drive)

Fang