I am trying to install debian on a system that already contains windows XP on a raid 0 partition. I've got some difficult hardware so bare with me on this.
My motherboard is a nforce4 chipset and I have two disk, sda and sdb, which are configured in a raid 0 array through the nvraid bios. I have a single partition(NTFS) which occupies ~40GB and I would like to install debian in the remaining space. The debian installer finds my disks okay but doesn't recognize the raid.(I really didn't expect it do so) I've gotten knoppix to boot with the same outcome. The question is how do I get debian to recognize the disk setup. I have read about "dmraid" which doesn't seem to be available in debian. Can I do this with existing debian tools or should I get another hard disk? I welcome doc/how-to/RTFM's on this...Thanks Possible useful output..additional specs/info can be provided upon request [EMAIL PROTECTED] dmesg Linux version 2.6.12 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc-Version 3.3.6 (Debian 1:3.3.6-7)) #2 SMP Tue Aug 9 23:20:52 CEST 2005 ---snip---- Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 100000K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx NFORCE-CK804: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:06.0 NFORCE-CK804: chipset revision 162 NFORCE-CK804: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later NFORCE-CK804: BIOS didn't set cable bits correctly. Enabling workaround. NFORCE-CK804: 0000:00:06.0 (rev a2) UDMA133 controller ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe800-0xe807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA Probing IDE interface ide0... hda: _NEC DVD_RW ND-3520AW, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdb: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-117 0107, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Probing IDE interface ide1... Probing IDE interface ide2... Probing IDE interface ide3... Probing IDE interface ide4... Probing IDE interface ide5... hda: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 hdb: ATAPI 126X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache libata version 1.11 loaded. sata_nv version 0.6 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APSI] enabled at IRQ 23 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:07.0[A] -> Link [APSI] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:07.0 to 64 ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9F0 ctl 0xBF2 bmdma 0xD400 irq 23 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x970 ctl 0xB72 bmdma 0xD408 irq 23 ata1: no device found (phy stat 00000000) scsi0 : sata_nv ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:74eb 83:7f63 84:4003 85:74e8 86:3c43 87:4003 88:407f ata2: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 72303840 sectors: lba48 nv_sata: Primary device added nv_sata: Primary device removed nv_sata: Secondary device added nv_sata: Secondary device removed ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 scsi1 : sata_nv Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD360GD-00FL Rev: 31.0 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APSJ] enabled at IRQ 22 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:08.0[A] -> Link [APSJ] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:08.0 to 64 ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9E0 ctl 0xBE2 bmdma 0xC000 irq 22 ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x960 ctl 0xB62 bmdma 0xC008 irq 22 ata3: no device found (phy stat 00000000) scsi2 : sata_nv ata4: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:74eb 83:7f63 84:4003 85:74e8 86:3c43 87:4003 88:407f ata4: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 72303840 sectors: lba48 nv_sata: Primary device added nv_sata: Primary device removed nv_sata: Secondary device added nv_sata: Secondary device removed ata4: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 scsi3 : sata_nv Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD360GD-00FL Rev: 31.0 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sda: 72303840 512-byte hdwr sectors (37020 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back SCSI device sda: 72303840 512-byte hdwr sectors (37020 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back sda: sda1 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 SCSI device sdb: 72303840 512-byte hdwr sectors (37020 MB) SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdb: 72303840 512-byte hdwr sectors (37020 MB) SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back sdb: unknown partition table Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0 Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1 Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 6 Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 7 Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 8 EISA: Detected 0 cards. NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 64Kbytes TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 786432 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536) NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 15 ACPI wakeup devices: HUB0 XVR0 XVR1 XVR2 XVR3 USB0 USB2 MMAC MMCI UAR1 PS2K ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5) RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). seagate: ST0x/TMC-8xx not detected. Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! usbcore: registered new driver usbfs ---snip--- Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 28286400 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 28286401 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 28286400 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 28286401 md: md driver 0.90.1 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 program qtparted is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO program qtparted is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO hda: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hda: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 } ide: failed opcode was: unknown end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 1422244 Buffer I/O error on device hda, logical block 355561 hda: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 } ide: failed opcode was: unknown end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 1422244 Buffer I/O error on device hda, logical block 355561 hdb: media error (bad sector): status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdb: media error (bad sector): error=0x30 { LastFailedSense=0x03 } ide: failed opcode was: unknown end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 0 Buffer I/O error on device hdb, logical block 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] lsmod Module Size Used by md 42192 0 md5 7680 1 ipv6 238016 6 sworks_agp 10912 0 nvidia_agp 9756 0 efficeon_agp 10144 0 amd64_agp 13640 0 ali_agp 9216 0 agpgart 31440 5 sworks_agp,nvidia_agp,efficeon_agp,amd64_agp,ali_agp autofs4 19076 1 af_packet 24328 0 snd_intel8x0 30528 0 snd_ac97_codec 72312 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_pcm_oss 47264 0 snd_mixer_oss 18304 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 77316 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 23556 1 snd_pcm snd 46820 6 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 11104 1 snd snd_page_alloc 11268 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm i2c_nforce2 9600 0 i2c_core 20992 1 i2c_nforce2 forcedeth 19584 0 parport_pc 38724 0 parport 33480 1 parport_pc 8250 42844 0 serial_core 21120 1 8250 tsdev 9664 0 evdev 11008 0 usbhid 42464 0 pcmcia 23696 0 yenta_socket 22152 0 rsrc_nonstatic 14080 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core 43268 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic video 18308 0 thermal 14984 0 processor 24520 1 thermal fan 7300 0 container 7296 0 button 9104 0 battery 12420 0 ac 7556 0 rtc 13900 0 unionfs 68088 1 cloop 19232 1 sbp2 24584 0 ohci1394 33460 0 ieee1394 297432 2 sbp2,ohci1394 usb_storage 68544 0 ohci_hcd 21764 0 uhci_hcd 31632 0 usbcore 102492 5 usbhid,usb_storage,ohci_hcd,uhci_hcd [EMAIL PROTECTED] lspci 0000:00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005e (rev a3) 0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0050 (rev a3) 0000:00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0052 (rev a2) 0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005a (rev a2) 0000:00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005b (rev a3) 0000:00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0059 (rev a2) 0000:00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0053 (rev a2) 0000:00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0054 (rev a3) 0000:00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0055 (rev a3) 0000:00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005c (rev a2) 0000:00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0057 (rev a3) 0000:00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005d (rev a3) 0000:00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005d (rev a3) 0000:00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005d (rev a3) 0000:00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005d (rev a3) 0000:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge 0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge 0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge 0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge 0000:01:07.0 Communication controller: Conexant HCF 56k Data/Fax Modem (rev 89) 0000:05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0140 (rev a2) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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