[sllug-members]: Hardware - IDE Controller

[Allen Parker]

On 12/27/06, Lamont Peterson <lamont at gurulabs.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 December 2006 12:56pm, Mike Potter wrote:
> > Allen Parker wrote:
> > >> Debian should have a module for promise fasttrack cards. Try
> > >> pdc202xx_new and pdc202xx_old. If that doesn't work, would you mind
> > >> posting the results from lspci in a return email?
> >
> > Well, well. modprobe pdc202xx_new gave no messages, but now lspci shows
> > the controller. Now where are the mount points in /dev?
>
> As Doran said, check "dmesg" output (it should be at the bottom).
>
> Probably, the devices are /dev/hde, /dev/hdf, /dev/hdg and/or /dev/hdh (for
> the primary channel's master & slave and the secondary channel's master &
> slave devices).  It depends on how you connected them physically.
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having looked at the machine in question, i believe it's due to the
promise 'raid' bios configuration.