> Sorry if I'm asking obvious questions, I'm new to this list. Are you > trying to install Mandrake 9.0 beta3 on a PDC-20276 RAID-0 Array? If so, > could you please list in detail what you have done so far, since I am > trying to do the very same thing. So far the installer has give me only > a "your partition table is too corrupted" error in the partitioning phase > of the installation.
At first I tried to install Mandrake 8.2 on my brother's computer with an MSI K3T RAID motherboard. The raid-controller was not recognised. I also tried Redhat 7.3 and Suse 8.0 without success. Then the first 9.0 beta came out. This recognised the PDC-20276. I had to insmod ataraid and pdcraid by hand and pdcraid gave an Oops. The second 9.0 beta didn't even recognise the chip and also gave a lot of problems on my own computer. The third 9.0 beta did recognise the chip and the modules didn't give any problem, though I still had to load them by hand. The installation recognised an "ataraid disk". After partitioning I had to reboot and then (after loading the modules) I didn't see the ataraid disk anymore. Unfortunately I don't have time this week to do some more tests, perhaps next week.
