On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 07:47:34PM +0100, diego wrote: > Let's have first some background before breaking it all ;-)) > > I have a board with 2 IDE ports (HighPoint's raid) and 2 "normal" IDE > ports. That's why I had to add those 2 disk-stanzas.... I will describe > the issues in my board (that might be quite similar to your case): > > At startup, BIOS makes raid to be ide 0 and 1, and normal ones 2 and 3. > It then tryies to boot from first drive in the first ide available. > Let's say it is a master drive in ide 0. We should call it hda. So far > so good. > > The "problem" is that Linux does not use BIOS to do it's I/O, so as soon > as it has been loaded into memory it won't use BIOS conventions. In my > case it thinks normal ide port's are 0 and 1, and raid ones are 2 and 3, > just the opposite as BIOS stated!!! > On my wife's SOYO Dragon+ the BIOS sees the raid controller as a scsi device and will not boot windows from it unless scsi boot is enabled in the bios.I haven't tried to dual boot this board , so I don't know if it's actually relevant,but it might be worth checking the next time you reboot. Ray Warren
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