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On 01/04/03 13:59, Keith Antoine wrote:
>>
>> So did you change anything in its BIOS?
> 
> 
> No, but I have delved into what is happening and its wierd. Lets take 
> windows first with raid enabled: its XP pro.
> 
> It boots and allocates primary master with C and D partitions. Then it 
> allocated the raid drive as G. Then the two
> dvd drives, ones a burner as E & F.
> 
> Linux will not boot at all in this state but will when I disable raid on 
> the MB.
> 
> It comes up with the following drive configuration when raid is enabled:
> hdd = raid drive
> hde = primary master
> hdf  = Samsung dvd reader
> hdg = Secondary master
> hdh = Dvd Burner
> 
> hda, hdc do not appear at all !!!!!!!!!!!!!
> 
> Now it cannot be bios otherwise windows would exhibit the same problem 
> but it does not, so what is there that causes
> linux to differ ???

I've never done IDE RAID, so perhaps i'm way off base here.  Are you 
sure its not supposed to work this way?  Is the problem that you can't 
install Linux like this, or can't get a preinstalled version to boot?

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