RE: [Cooker] Attempt to install 9.0 beta1 - hard drive designations incorrect
When you boot your system I would suggest hardcoding your drives ie boot: linux ide0=0x1f0,0x1f2,15 ide1=0x170,0x172,14 syntax is as follows ide0=memory_addr_as_reported_in_dmsg,memory_addr from previus+2,irq_of_controller I was having this problem as you have described w/ mdk and redhat @ one time but found that the os was really changing the order to which it was detecting the drives so I had to hard code the settings in lilo.conf and when starting the install I had to do the above method.. If I can be of any help please feel free to reply... ___ Brandon Grace Network Security Analyst TTUnet Network Operations Center Texas Tech University ___ ô¿ô Linux, Bringing The World To a Brave New Front THE RIGHT ONE -Original Message- From: Gerry Tool [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 13:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Cooker] Attempt to install 9.0 beta1 - hard drive designations incorrect I have a Soyo Dragon Platinum mainboard with 4 IDE channels. Channels 1 and 2 are standard Ultra-133 channels. Channels 3 and 4 are IDE-Raid channels provided by a HIghpoint HPT372 controller, operating as normal IDE channels, not raid. I have a 100GB drive on Channel 1 as master - known as hda in my existing RedHat linux installations. (also contains the MBR and windows partitions) I have a 6GB drive on Channel 3 as master - known as hde on my existing RedHat linux installations. I have a 4GB drive on Channel 4 as master - known ast hdg . While trying to install Mandrake 9.0 beta 1, the installer identifies the 6GB drive as hda, the 4GB as hdc, and the 100GB as hde. When I try to use the 6 and 4 GB drives to install 9.0 beta 1, it cannot revise the drives tables. I believe there is a major misidentification of these drives by 9.0 beta 1. Any ideas? Gerry Tool
Re: [Cooker] Attempt to install 9.0 beta1 - hard drive designations incorrect
Gerry Tool wrote: I have a Soyo Dragon Platinum mainboard with 4 IDE channels. Channels 1 and 2 are standard Ultra-133 channels. Channels 3 and 4 are IDE-Raid channels provided by a HIghpoint HPT372 controller, operating as normal IDE channels, not raid. I have a 100GB drive on Channel 1 as master - known as hda in my existing RedHat linux installations. (also contains the MBR and windows partitions) I have a 6GB drive on Channel 3 as master - known as hde on my existing RedHat linux installations. I have a 4GB drive on Channel 4 as master - known ast hdg . While trying to install Mandrake 9.0 beta 1, the installer identifies the 6GB drive as hda, the 4GB as hdc, and the 100GB as hde. When I try to use the 6 and 4 GB drives to install 9.0 beta 1, it cannot revise the drives tables. I believe there is a major misidentification of these drives by 9.0 beta 1. Any ideas? Gerry Tool I have the hpt372 onboard Iwill xp333r, for which up-to-the-latest Mandrake kernel provides hde,-f,-g,-h. Days of trying and, even, an RMA have netted me only fleeting successes with fdisk, sfdisk, et al and no successful data transfers. Are you able to read/write to this controller as ide drives with the Red Hat kernel? Recently, I have been able to access and easily format a drive on the hpt, prozilla the beta iso's to it, and gcombust perfect disks from it after utilizing the tantalizingly-but-misleadingly named hpt3xx-opensource-v13.tgz from Highpoint: http://www.highpoint-tech.com/. This entails a small edit of a .c file in kernel-source, kernel build, and driver compile from the quasi-open tarball. The drives on this controller then become sda, -b, etc. lsmod [..] scsi_mod 90364 5 [sg sr_mod hpt37x2 ide-scsi sd_mod] I can't guess why your drive id's get switched that way.
