I purchased a new motherboard: the GA-7VRXP with an Ahtlon 1800+ processor. SuSE8.0 is unable to see the HD's attached to IDE3 and IDE4, though it would find them on my old BX-133RAID motherboard. SuSE8.1 finds them on the GA-7VRXP. But for several reasons I want to keep SuSE8.0 on my new system too. I heard this problem has occured before but so far could not find any solution to the problem. Am I forced to attach the HD's to IDE1 and IDE2? An in that case: attach the CDROM and CDRW to IDE3 and IDE4? Or is it a simple a setting in the BIOS? =============================== E.M.J. Vaessen Senior Systeemspecialist Afdeling Remote Sensing en Fotogrammetrie (GAR) Meetkundige Dienst van Rijkswaterstaat Postbus 5023, 2600 GA Delft Kanaalweg 3b, 2628 EB Delft Telefoon: (015) 26 91 277 E-mail e.m.j.vaessen@mdi.rws.minvenw.nl MD wordt Adviesdienst Geo-informatie en ICT (AGI) vanaf voorjaar 2003 =============================== Disclaimer ************************************************************************ Aan dit bericht kunnen geen rechten worden ontleend. Dit bericht is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Als u dit bericht per abuis hebt ontvangen, wordt u verzocht het te vernietigen en de afzender te informeren. Wij adviseren u om bij twijfel over de juistheid of de volledigheid van de mail contact met afzender op te nemen. ************************************************************************
Yes, I have the same exact board and processor. I revolves around the Promise technology chipset. The module that needs to be loaded is the "pcd" driver and the ata/raid functions. The 2.4.18 kernel doesn't support the latest Promise MBUltra 133 IDE chipset. The model on your board is the "PCD20276" chipset and the kernel on supports the one before that. You have two choices: A) patch the kernel/upgrade to 2.4.19, or B) upgrading to version 8.1 which has the 2.4.19 kernel. Frankly, I would upgrade because not only does 8.1 have the 2.4.19 kernel but it also has a kernal that is optimized for AMD AthlonXP cpu's. Either way, one you have upgrade successfully with either solution you will need to remember to add a boot parameter. Namely, "ide=reverse" because once the chipset is reconized it will load before the default Ide0/ide1 interfaces. This is due to the speed of the Promise ide interface being read before the default ide interface. Using "ide=reverse" will fix this. An example is as follows. without ide=reverse hde hdf hdg hdh no root partition found with ide=reverse hda hdb hdc hdd hde and boot. HTH, this helps, Curtis. P.S. The price we pay for bleed edge technology. On Wednesday 06 November 2002 05:13, Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed) wrote:
I purchased a new motherboard: the GA-7VRXP with an Ahtlon 1800+ processor. SuSE8.0 is unable to see the HD's attached to IDE3 and IDE4, though it would find them on my old BX-133RAID motherboard. SuSE8.1 finds them on the GA-7VRXP. But for several reasons I want to keep SuSE8.0 on my new system too.
I heard this problem has occured before but so far could not find any solution to the problem. Am I forced to attach the HD's to IDE1 and IDE2? An in that case: attach the CDROM and CDRW to IDE3 and IDE4? Or is it a simple a setting in the BIOS?
=============================== E.M.J. Vaessen Senior Systeemspecialist Afdeling Remote Sensing en Fotogrammetrie (GAR)
Meetkundige Dienst van Rijkswaterstaat Postbus 5023, 2600 GA Delft
Kanaalweg 3b, 2628 EB Delft Telefoon: (015) 26 91 277 E-mail e.m.j.vaessen@mdi.rws.minvenw.nl
MD wordt Adviesdienst Geo-informatie en ICT (AGI) vanaf voorjaar 2003 ===============================
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Thanks Curtis, I also had this fun on 2 machines and had to give up on mirroring the disks. I only bought 8.1 pro yesterday (8.0 works so well!). Nice 'n' clear. Damian Curtis Rey wrote:
Yes, I have the same exact board and processor. I revolves around the Promise technology chipset. The module that needs to be loaded is the "pcd" driver and the ata/raid functions. The 2.4.18 kernel doesn't support the latest Promise MBUltra 133 IDE chipset. The model on your board is the "PCD20276" snip!
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If you have any other question please post again. I have a "little" experience with this, as was as any Maxtor hdd's you might attach (they can be problematic as well) and DMA APCI issues. Cheers, Curtis. On Thursday 07 November 2002 03:41, Damian Ohara wrote:
Thanks Curtis,
I also had this fun on 2 machines and had to give up on mirroring the disks. I only bought 8.1 pro yesterday (8.0 works so well!).
Nice 'n' clear.
Damian
Curtis Rey wrote:
Yes, I have the same exact board and processor. I revolves around the Promise technology chipset. The module that needs to be loaded is the "pcd" driver and the ata/raid functions. The 2.4.18 kernel doesn't support the latest Promise MBUltra 133 IDE chipset. The model on your board is the "PCD20276"
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