[ale] Machine With Drives @ e,f,g,h: help?

[Jim Popovitch]

Hi Danny,

If you have the patience, you can specify some startup commands to lilo that
cause it to resort drive identification so that what you think is hda
appears as hda instead of hde, etc.  This should also help with the
inability of RH to locate the drives.  The trick is trying to figure out
what values to specify.  It may help to get a copy of the LinuxCare boot CD
to debug this first.

Read these threads for some details:

   https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/ataraid-list/2002-July/000916.html

   http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-11/0686.html


Best Wishes,  ;)

-Jim P.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of Danny Cox
> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 5:52 PM
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> Subject: [ale] Machine With Drives @ e,f,g,h: help?
>
>
> Howdy!
>
> 	I've gotten a 1U machine with 4 drives, and a slim CD rom
> drive.  The
> controler for the CD rom has the usual layout: hd{a,b,c,d}, with the CD
> rom on hda.  Another chipset, a Promise 20276 has the drives
> hd{e,f,g,h}.  Red Hat 8.1 and 7.3 refuse to install on it (not finding
> any drives), and at least one phrase in their installation notes implies
> that I'm SOL because the BIOS (and therefore LILO and GRUB) can only
> access the first four drives.
>
> 	What say ye?  Do I have any chance at all, or in the
> immortal words of
> Norm (Cheers), "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone
> underwear!"
>
> --
> kernel, n.: A part of an operating system that preserves the
> medieval traditions of sorcery and black art.
>
> Danny
>
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