Hi All, The below did sovle the problem with the system with the Promise card but did not work on another system without a Promise card having the exact same problem. It does not have any RAID as well. I have 1 system working and 7 that do not all with the exact same errors. They all have different Mother Boards (Giga Byte, Asus, Elite Group,...). The only common is the either had Intel with HT or AMD athlon. I will report back once I have more information. But this did work on the Promise card system. So if some one else can search the archive for Promise and find this. Thanks, On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, SRGlasoe wrote:
On Mon October 18 2004 5:12 pm, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
Hello All,
It has the Promise Fastrack but it is disabled, but I still get the message about warning about HD Raid not supported in the 2.6.X kernels. I have other OS's like Free BSD, UnixWare, OpenServer, and windows various versions that all work with out any problem. I am not using this RAID so things should work. 9.0 worked and it also was not using any RAID. 9.1 wheter a new install, upgraded 9.0 all fail and nothing else can be mounted. I really think my problem is with Linux thinking I am using the Promise sued RAID that really isn't RAID.
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Thanks, Boyd Gerber
I have one of these Promise "RAID" controllers too. To utilize the hard drives on the controller in my system they must have Promise's RAID stamp/signature on them or they are unusable by any OS. That is what SUSE detects to give the warning message in 9.1.
I do manual installs and make sure that both pdcraid and acaraid are NOT loaded and all is fine - for me and my system. I still get that annoying message about a RAID array being detected and unusable but it is safe, for me, to ignore and proceed.
One theory I haven't tried is leaving acaraid installed to see if the warning messages stop. The pdcraid driver is never up to date and, as far as I've bothered to test, it doesn't work anyway.
Stan
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Boyd Gerber