Promise ATA100 and translations
I have an ASUS A7V motherboard with a pair of ATA66 IDE controllers and also a Promise ATA100 (20265) pair of ATA100 controllers. I have an ATA100 disk which has been running on the ATA66 controller as hdb. I moved it onto the ATA100 controller as an experiment; linux spotted it as hde, but didn't think there were any partitions on it. Actually it contains two extended partitions, a fat32 partition and an ext2fs partition. I didn't try booting Windows (2000) to see if it saw its partition. Anyone seen this problem? Is it to do with geometry translation? If so presumably there's a command line parameter for the kernel which will fix it up. Will Windows also see the disk? thanks Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Promise ATA100 and translations
When I switched my single drive over to the A7V's Promise controller, it was moved from hda to hde. All I had to do was boot with root=/dev/hde1 (or wherever my root partition was, this was the most frustration as I didn't write them down first!) and fix my inittab for everything to work.. All partitions corresponded with their numbers exactly to what they were on hda (e.g. hda1 = hde1, hda2 = hde2, etc). I don't use windows, so I don't know how that will work. HTH, -nicole I have an ATA100 disk which has been running on the ATA66 controller as hdb. I moved it onto the ATA100 controller as an experiment; linux spotted it as hde, but didn't think there were any partitions on it. Actually it contains two extended partitions, a fat32 partition and an ext2fs partition.
