> Just built a new system with Linux-2.4.0.
>
> Motherboard (MSI 694D-AR) has Via Apollo Pro chipset, those IDE drives seem
> fine. Board also has a promise PDC20265 RAID/ATA100 controller. On each
> channel of this controller I have an IBM 45 GB ATA100 drive as master.
> (hde and hdg?). BIOS sees these drives fine. Linux only see hde and never
> hdg (ide[012] but not ide3). I thought I'd post it here, in case anyone
> else knew the answer right away.
Ask AE...B
> Second question: Does the RAID functionality of this device work under
> linux? If so, is it better than LVM or MD?
NO, frauds allowed (raid)
> boot snippet:
> ---------------
> VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> VP_IDE: chipset revision 16
> VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a IDE UDMA66 controller on pci0:7.1
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc008-0xc00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
> PDC20265: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 60
> PDC20265: chipset revision 2
> PDC20265: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> PDC20265: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary MASTER Mode Secondary MASTER
> Mode.
> ide2: BM-DMA at 0xdc00-0xdc07, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
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Andre Hedrick
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