Is it just me or is this forum more and more used as a generic SuSE support list? Mit freundlichen Gruessen - Best regards Harald Milz Senior Consultant CC CompuNet AG & Co. oHG A part of Computacenter plc Hoerselbergstrasse 7, 81677 Muenchen, Germany Phone: +49 (0)89 45712-161, Fax: -331, Mobile: +49 (0)173 3866604 E-Mail : Harald.Milz@computacenter.com Visit us on the Internet: http://www.computacenter.com Visit our Online-Shop: http://www.compunet.de/connect This email is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not disclose or use the information contained in it. If you have received this mail in error, please tell us immediately by return email and delete the document. suse-autoinstall-return-1815-harald.milz=computacenter.com@suse.com on 14.04.2004 18:27:33 To: cc: Subject: [suse-autoinstall] Suse 9.0 on Raid mirror - include external driver module -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please help me install Suse 9 on a new Raid system! It is driving me MAD! I noticed several unsolved issues on this newsforum, about Raid, External modules. Please let some more experienced Linux crack dive into it and solve it, I'm a newbe on Linux. The Yast2 should ask for the external driver module, but it does not. Hèèlup! My system is Asus P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard with Promise FasTrak 378 controller. I attached two Maxtor 80 GB SATA disks in Raid mirror configuration. The system has also an Adaptec 2940 SCSi controller, with Plextor CD-Writer and Iomega Zip 100 drive attached. And to the on-board USB 2.0 controller an multimedia card reader is attached. There is an Plextor DVD RW on the EIDE controller. I partitioned the Raid disks in 3 NTFS and 1 Ext3 partition. On one NTFS partition Windows 2000 is succesfully running. I want to install Suse 9.0 on an ext3 partition. I downloaded the file 1_ft3xssb19.zip file, containing the FasTrack S150 TX2plus driver for Suse 9.0 from Promise, since the FasTrak 378 OEM controller is the same, according to Promise. I unpacked it and put it on a floppy disk, as the manual says. I put the Suse 9.0 CD #1 in the CD drive, start the PC. The system boots from the CD, while I press the F3 key (as the manual says to do) The Suse Installation screen appears and I Enter on the option "Installation". @@@>The YASt2 should now ask for the floppy. But it does not!<@@@ It does not matter if I insert the floppy before or afterwards. The diskette is read for a second, when inserted. But the module seems not toe be loaded. I tried again with a diskette where the driver module is in the root - no result either. Yast2 does not find my Raid disks, whatever I try. (Error) So Yast givess no configuration proposal. I also tried left Alt key instead of F3 key. I also tried "Installation - safe settings" - no result I also installed "Installation" with ACPI = Off in the boot options - no result I also tried, after a no result installation effort, to click the button "cancel installation. A smaller Main menu window appears. I choose option "Start Installation / system" Then I push OK, select Installation, and Ok again, a menu appears: choose source medium. But choices are CD-Rom, Network, Hard disk When I choose Harddisk I can fill in several partitions. Not any of my choices had result: "error could not mount the specified partition" When I choose CD-Rom and have the F3 key pressed the same useless round starts, with one difference: there is a window asking "confirm driver activation" "Yast2 has detected the following device: Promise Technology Inc (Asustek Computer Inc) Driver module to load" and then there is a window with "pdcraid" I can click OK or cancel. Both to no result. On OK I get a similar window about usb storage and then another one about sbp2 protocol. What should I do wih these? Do I have to enter something? The whole thing drives me raving mad. Please help.. Eveline Bernard 'Denkster'