This is my very first post, and I only just subscribed, so be gentle! ;-)
Background: ----------- I've been using Red Hat on my desktop for about a year, slowly learning about Linux in the process. After Red Hat announced their new business direction, I decided that I wanted to migrate to Debian. I still have RH9 on my desktop, but I wanted to install Debian on an old computer to act as a low-load server, and then migrate my desktop to Debian (my desktop is actually somewhat mission-critical for my business, so I want to really be comfortable before changing it from RH to Debian).
I would like to use an old computer that I have as a file server; it is a PII-350 with a 100MHz FSB. I just bought two Seagate 80GB drives to put in it, and I went ahead and purchased a "Highpoint Rocket133" IDE controller, because I thought it might result in faster disk access than what the old, on-board controller would (I don't know this for sure, but it *seems* reasonable). The Seagate 80s are ATA100, by the way. So there are no other HDDs in the machine, and just a CD-ROM on the original IDE cable; I wanted to use the two Seagate 80s in a RAID-1 configuration (for the majority of the disks, anyway).
Problem: -------- I tried to install Debian on this 2-HDD-Rocket133 system, and Debian complains that it can't find any HDDs, and tells me that this better be a disk-less NFS install, or I need to load modules to allow Debian to "see" any HDDs.
Well, the first thing I did was punt! I tried to install Red Hat 9, and everything worked great! RH saw the two disks, and I went ahead and partitioned them as follows: /dev/hde1: /boot 100 MB /dev/hde2: /var 8000 MB /dev/hde3: <swap> 800 MB
/dev/hdg1: <swap> 800 MB /dev/hdg2: /tmp 100 MB /dev/hdg3: /usr 8000 MB
/dev/md0: ~70 GB RAID1 hde5[0] hdg5[1] [2/2][UU]
My hope was that with the disks partitioned and filesystem-ed, Debain would recognize them. Well, no banana! The Debian install still told me that there were no HDDs.
I've searched the archives for some information, and I've really only found information about trying to use cheap H/W "RAID" controllers. But this isn't a RAID controller, just another IDE controller. Additionally, I've seen advice about recompiling with certain kernel options, but I have two problems in this arena: (1) I've never compiled a kernel myself, and (2) on a brand-new install like this, I can't do anything *about* the kernel, can I?
I booted back into the newly-installed RH9 system, and got some information that I had hoped might help clarify my problem, or the solution.
Any help would be *greatly* appreciated! Thanks-in-advance, Bruce.
Red Hat *successful* install information:
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#dmesg | less
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HPT302: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:10.0
:
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:10.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:14.2 (<--this looks to me to be USB)
:
HPT302: Chipset version 1
HPT302: Not 100% native mode: will probe IRQs later
HPT37X: Using 33MHz PCI clock
ide2: BM-DMA at 0x2400-0x2407, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:PIO
ide3: BM-DMA at 0x2408-0x240F, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:PIO
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hde: ST380011A, ATA disk drive (<--Seagate 80GB #1)
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hdg: ST380011A, ATA disk drive (<--Seagate 80GB #2)
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ide2 at 0x2050-0x2057, 0x2062 on IRQ 11
ide3 at 0x2058-0x205F, 0x2066 on IRQ 11
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hde: host protected area => 1
:
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#cat /proc/version
2.4.20-8 ...RH Linux...
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#cat /proc/pci
:
bus 0, device 16, function 0:
RAID bus controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT302 (Rev.1)
IRQ 11
master capable. latency=120. min.gnt=8. max.lat.=8
I/O at 0x2050 [0x2057]
I/O at 0x2060 [0x2063]
I/O at 0x2058 [0x205F]
I/O at 0x2064 [0x2057]
I/O at 0x2400 [0x24FF]
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#cat /proc/modules:
used: parport_pc, parport, e100, usbcore, ext3, usb, RAID1
unused: msr, lp, autofs, keybdev, mousedev, hid, input, usb-uhci
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#cat /proc/ioports
2050-2057: Triones Tech ... HPT203
: ide2
2058-205F: Triones Tech ... HPT203
: ide3
2060: ...ide2
2064: ...ide3
2400: ...ide2
2408: ...ide3
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