raid

[Aaron Grewell]

I'm not sure I understand, but here goes.  The different drive letters
are quite normal for the Promise controller.  Will it not install once
the RAID is on?  That's a kernel support issue, so if Mandrake doesn't
support the Promise RAID setup then you'll have to make a kernel that
does before you can turn it on.


On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 13:59, Keith Antoine wrote:
> At 05:22 PM 3/01/2003 -0800, you wrote:
> >On 01/03/03 17:10, Keith Antoine wrote:
> >>At 03:53 PM 3/01/2003 -0800, you wrote:
> >>
> >>>On 01/03/03 15:40, Keith Antoine wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>Well the holidays are over and all my family have gone, just the two of 
> >>>>us again. I have been using
> >>>>windows for two reasons, one is that I had problems with mandrake 9.0 
> >>>>and went The problem arose i that when I went to re-install the drives 
> >>>>were shown as hac,hdd and hde; no hda
> >>>>hdc as I used to have with cd drives on b and d. looked as if they are 
> >>>>now hda and hdb ??
> >>>>This is real wierd and I do not seem to be able to change the to what 
> >>>>they should be., was thinkingbof taking the
> >>>>raid out of circuit for the install but!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Is this hardware or software RAID?  If its hardware, what kind of 
> >>>controller is it?  Perhaps a BIOS problem?
> >>
> >>Its a promise chip in an Asus A7V333.
> >
> >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 ???
> 
> Keith aka skippy
> 
> 
> 
> 
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