MB : ABIT KX7-333R, amd XP2200+ Good point : although the second hard drive was in hde (on the raid controller), the installation could skip the detection test (it didn't reognize it because of lots of dma errors, as reported previously), and finally went fine.
Bad point : the HPT372 controller is not recognized well, at boot time, it is assumed as a 33Mhz chipset although it is a 133 !!! Very bad point : i had a kernel panic (not a hard reboot needed, but ...). Here is the trace in /var/log/messages : Sep 20 00:48:49 localhost kernel: hdc: tray open Sep 20 00:48:49 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 955980 Sep 20 00:48:49 localhost kernel: VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice day... Sep 20 00:48:49 localhost kernel: cdrom: open failed. Sep 20 00:48:50 localhost last message repeated 4 times Sep 20 00:48:50 localhost kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000014 Sep 20 00:48:50 localhost kernel: printing eip: Sep 20 00:48:50 localhost kernel: e2b6eb14 Sep 20 00:48:50 localhost kernel: *pde = 00000000 Sep 20 00:48:50 localhost kernel: Oops: 0000 Sep 20 00:48:50 localhost kernel: CPU: 0 Sep 20 00:48:50 localhost kernel: EIP: 0010:[ppp_async:__insmod_ppp_async_O/lib/modules/2.4.19-13mdk/kernel/dr iver+-857324/96] Not tainted Sep 20 00:48:50 localhost kernel: EIP: 0010:[<e2b6eb14>] Not tainted Sep 20 00:48:50 localhost kernel: EFLAGS: 00013286 Sep 20 00:48:50 localhost kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: de1208c0 ecx: de1208f8 edx: dfba0400 Sep 20 00:48:50 localhost kernel: esi: de1208f8 edi: d7af3420 ebp: d0d83f30 esp: d0d83f2c Sep 20 00:48:50 localhost kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Sep 20 00:48:50 localhost kernel: Process cp (pid: 2902, stackpage=d0d83000) Sep 20 00:48:50 localhost kernel: Stack: de1208c0 d0d83f48 e2b6e96b dfba0400 000004d3 d693a860 d2000840 d0d83f64 Sep 20 00:48:50 localhost kernel: e2b6fb8e dfba0400 00000000 d2000840 c158e460 d7af3420 d0d83f84 c013ad02 Sep 20 00:48:50 localhost kernel: d7af3420 d2000840 dc3716a0 d2000840 da785da0 00000000 d0d83fa8 c01396d8 Sep 20 00:48:50 localhost kernel: Call Trace: [ppp_async:__insmod_ppp_async_O/lib/modules/2.4.19-13mdk/kernel/ driver+-857749/96] [ppp_async:__insmod_ppp_async_O/lib/modules/2.4.19-13mdk/kernel/driver+-853106/96] [fput+226/2 56] [filp_close+56/96] [sys_close+69/96] Sep 20 00:48:50 localhost kernel: Call Trace: [<e2b6e96b>] [<e2b6fb8e>] [<c013ad02>] [<c01396d8>] [<c0139745>] Sep 20 00:48:50 localhost kernel: [system_call+51/64] Sep 20 00:48:50 localhost kernel: [<c0108fe3>] Sep 20 00:48:50 localhost kernel: Sep 20 00:48:50 localhost kernel: Code: 8b 40 14 66 8b 58 08 0f b6 c7 3d fe 00 00 00 7e 0b 8b 5d fc In it you can see that there is a problem in accessing hdc which is a DVD rom. Stef
