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.
