Can't find 80 Gb harddisk.

Zeeland · n00b Joined: 13 Feb 2003 Posts: 28

Hi,

I am a newbie to Gentoo linux after I have tried Redhat, Mandrake, Suse, etc. I am willing to try gentoo linux.
But I ran in some trouble. I can't find my 80 Gb harddisk. (I know it is connected with the promise raid controller and accessible with winxp.)
I have also read that there are some trouble with raid controllers using gentoo, but I don't understand it exactly.
Ok here is the situation: I have a A7V8x motherboard from asus with one harddisk of 20 Gb(ATA66) on the primaire IDE port and a 80Gb harddisk(ATA133) on the secondairy port of the raid controller(this is ATA133 interface the other two is S-ATA). But when I load the raid driver from 1.2 or 1.4rc2 gentoo linux and go looking for my 80Gb harddisk, I find a 20Gb disk(/dev/ataraid/disc0/disc) connected to the raid controller and /dev/hda is also a 20Gb.

Please help.

Exci · Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 12:10 pm Post subject:

did you try a

W1ReD · n00b Joined: 10 Feb 2003 Posts: 37

Exci · Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 3:09 pm Post subject:

depends, I only see 2 harddisks, one of 20 GB connected to a normal IDE channel, that means the second of 80GB is on the raid controller.

So he won't use RAID but just the IDE controller from those raid controllers.

that means his 80GB is somewhere between hde and hdz

that why do a :

W1ReD · n00b Joined: 10 Feb 2003 Posts: 37

yeah--that's the best way to go. Or he could just run cfdisk and view them, but your way will display more info.

W1ReD

Zeeland · n00b Joined: 13 Feb 2003 Posts: 28

Ok I've tried a little more. I disconnected the 20Gb harddrive and guess what? I'm unable to load the pdcraid modules. I get some error message which saids that it can't find the promise raid modules. By the way it is a Fasttrak 376, could it be possible that it is still not supported at this moment? The mainboard is 3 weeks old.

Caviel · n00b Joined: 18 Nov 2002 Posts: 22

Linux RAID installs are really funky....Took me almost a month to get the 233 w/ Promise RAID working, much to my boss' dismay.

Anyways, when you fire up your system off the CD, make sure you type the following at the boot prompt:

Zeeland · n00b Joined: 13 Feb 2003 Posts: 28

BernieKe · Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2003 4:38 pm Post subject:

it seems that with certain (new) kernels the modules for raidcontrollers don't work anymore (even with no raidfunctionality used), try to get it working with the gentoo-sources r7 first, as these certainly work (afterwards you can experiment with others)

if you do not intend to use the raidfunctionality you don't need to build in any raidmodules in the kernel

if the hd is connected to the first ide of your controller it should be on /dev/hde

Zeeland · n00b Joined: 13 Feb 2003 Posts: 28

BernieKe · Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 4:05 pm Post subject:

yes: you don't need to define an array if you use the hd as a single hd

Zeeland · n00b Joined: 13 Feb 2003 Posts: 28

BernieKe · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 2:10 pm Post subject:

hmmz...
well it seems like i was too fast in aswering as i only have experience with highpoint and mistakenly tought this would be the same with other controllers