Johan Nielsen wrote:
Torsdag den 19. august 2004 16:25 skrev James Knott:
Johan Nielsen wrote:
Torsdag den 19. august 2004 10:16 skrev Per Jessen:
Ti Kan wrote:
Plausible explanation. However you should also look at the INITRD_MODULES= line in your /etc/sysconfig/kernel file. This specifies kernel modules that should be loaded early in the boot process, before
Ah yes, very true. I never use a stock SuSE kernel and almost never use an initrd, so it didn't occur to me to mention that.
Trying to summarize is this the issue/reason when ide-devices is "found" before SATA devices (ASUS P4C800E-Deluxe board).
And what about the case with Promise ide-controllers they're also detected before drives on regular controllers (read controllers on the main board) ??
This is probably the cause of the problem on my system. I have the hard drives connected to the Promise controller. In Red Hat 7.3, they were seen as hde & hdg. Now, with SuSe 9.0, they're hda & hdc. Then, when I try to install Win4Lin, they appear as hde & hdg again and clobbers the system, when I try to boot.
Oh let me clarify a thing .....
I was talking about promise ide-cards. But the same goes when you use the built-in controller on the board .....
But as of now I don't think that there's support for the use of all "SATA and IDE-devices" at one time on a P4C800E-Deluxe board yet (work in progress I suspect)
As I understand it right now you can use one of the "regular" IDE-interfaces and the promise interface that's built in at the same time. Linux doesn't mind which of the two regular IDE-interfaces that is (This alltogether with the SATA interfaces in use).
When "full" support for the chipset is achieved it should be possible to use all 8 devices (so lets see what the future brings ;-)
Johan
I don't have any SATA ports on this motherboard. However, there are two each standard and Promise controller connectors. Both hard drives are plugged into their own Promise connector. The CD-RW and DVD drives share one standard IDE connector.