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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
