On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 03:34:59PM +0300, msaren wrote: > I get Asus A8V motherboard with Promise 20378 and VIA8237 ide > controlles. Now I have /boot partition in standard IDE controller and > Debian installer sees it with out problems. I'd like to put / partition > in Promise RAID, in which I have to identical PATA drives. However, > Debian installer does not see any drives (except /boot). Drives at > Promise controller work anyway nice with XP.
The PATA ports on a Promise controllers are not (yet) supported, see http://linux.yyz.us/sata/sata-status.html . > So what should I do? With lsmod I found both sata_via.ko and > sata_promise.ko. Should I get some extra kernelmodule for Promise RAID? First of all, it's not a hardware RAID so don't expect blazing write performance, see http://linux.yyz.us/sata/faq-sata-raid.html . I think your current options are: - Use a Promise PATA controller IDE card - Get SATA drives and connect them to your Promise 20378 - Get SATA-->PATA bridges so you can connect your PATA drives to the 20378 Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands