The Asus A7V onboard Promise ATA-100 controller is not recognized or seen even when the 'correct' idex= boot parameters are supplied. cat /proc/pci shows ioports 8800, 8400, 8000, 7800. According to the various instructions I am supposed to boot with the following command from the boot disk linux ide2=8800,8402 ide3=8000,7802 But only the 'regular' ide0, and ide1 controllers are recognized.
Support for these newer IDE chipsets will come with the 2.4 kernel. Deferring for now.