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I have a MSI 694D motherboard with onboard VIA 686a
chipset ide controller and Promise FastTrak 100 w/ lite bios.
I also have a Promise FastTrak 66 with full
bios.
I am trying to use Mandrake 8.0
I have 5 hd's and a cdrom all set
to master.
20gig onboard VIA ide channel
1
cdrom onboard VIA ide channel.2
40gig onboard fastrack channel 1
40gig onboard fastrack channel 2
30gig on pci fastrack channel 1
30gig on pci fastrack channel 2
If I have all drives hooked up and boot the cd the
cd hangs affter it detects hda and hdc
the pdc driver in the kernel only sees 1 channel on
the 2 promise cards.
If I unplug the cables from the drives on the
promise cards I can boot the cd and install.
after installing I can plug the cables back in and
see 1 40gig and 1 30gig drive but I get random lockups. (do I need to recompile
the kernel???)
I have tried changing the way the drives are in the
promise bios (1 drive stripe, 2 drive stripe, 2 drive mirror, etc) with no
different results.
My guess is that the kernel module needs some
parameter passed to it to see the second channel on the promise controllers, but
I don't know what to do.
I have searched and searched on the net for answers
and put my problem into mandrake expert but still no answers.
If someone could help me I would appreciate it
much! I don't want to install windows again just to use my
drives.
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