Hey everyone, I am trying to do a fresh installation on a Biostar IDEQ 200N computer. This setup has a VIA VT6420 SATA RAID controller in it and my two sata drives which do show up in the VIA BIOS message at bootup are not being detected by the kernel. Specifically, once the livecd finished booting, I only see /dev/hdc (which is my dvd drive); no other /dev/hd* available.
I'm using the latest athalon-xp liveCD (cd1) downloaded saturday. I did some searching around and tried to boot with the 'smp' and 'smp-nofb' kernels with and without 'doataraid' options. Unfortunately, none seemed to do the trick... So the mistake I made is that I'm not interested in using the RAID hardware controller, just the sata drives, but I didn't notice that this unit's sata support is with a RAID controller. It seems like some of the other kernels might have support for this, but I don't know how to get to that point. So, is there any way I can avoid returning these drives and replacing them with ata100 drives? (I'd just like to avoid that transaction is all. I've been curious about the sata drives for sometime). Thanks in advance! -- Daniel Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
