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Please help this newbie, PLEEEEASE!
Background: ----------- I started with Linux by using Red Hat on my desktop/workstation for about a year now (RH7.2, 8.0, 9) and I've been slowly learning about Linux in the process. After Red Hat announced their new business direction, I decided that I wanted to migrate to Debian. Debian always sounded cool, now I have the motivation. I want to install Debian on an old computer to act as a low-load server, and *then* migrate my workstation to Debian (it is actually somewhat "mission-critical", so I need to be more comfortable with Debian before Debian-izing it).
The old computer that I want to make a simple file server is a PentiumII-350MHz (100MHz FSB). I just bought two Seagate 80GB drives to put in it, and I also purchased a "Highpoint Rocket133" IDE controller with the hope that it might result in faster disk access than that of the old, on-board controller (I really don't know this for sure, but it *seems* reasonable). The Seagate 80 GBs are ATA100, by the way. There are no other HDDs in the machine, and just a CD-ROM on the original IDE cable and a NIC; I wanted to use the two Seagate 80-Gigs in a RAID-1 configuration (for the majority of the disk-space, anyway).
Problem: -------- I tried to install Debian on this "2-HDD-on-the-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. This is from attempting to boot as "bf24" (I also tried "compact" and "vanilla").
Well, the first thing I did was punt! I tried to install Red Hat 9, and EVERYTHING WORKED FINE! <:-/ 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/hde4/5: RAID1 /dev/hdg4/5: RAID1 Resulting in: /dev/md0: ~70 GB RAID1 hde5[0] hdg5[1] [2/2][UU]
My hope was that with the two HDDs now partitioned and 'filesystem-ed', Debian would recognize them. Well, NO BANANA! The Debian install still tells me that there are no HDDs!
I've searched the archives for some information, and I haven't found much. I've found information about trying to use cheap Highpoint H/W "RAID" controllers, but this isn't a RAID controller---it's just another IDE controller (although the boot messages about the card sometimes seem to *imply* RAID in some way). I also found someone who couldn't get Debian to see his HDDs on another controller, but his solution was to boot the 2.4 kernel with "bf24"---but I've been trying that. Additionally, I've seen advice about recompiling with certain kernel options to support *other* controllers, 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?
After wading through many, many messages in the archives---I found something *similar* (getting HDDs recognized on the another controller) that involved passing arguments to the kernel on boot. So, after looking at the sample in the archive---and the address/IRQ information from my successful RH install (below)---I tried the following permutations at the Debian install boot prompt:
bf24 ide2=0x2050,0x2062 ide3=0x2058,0x2066
bf24 ide2=0x2050,0x2062,11 ide3=0x2058,0x2066,11
bf24 ide2=0x2050-0x2057,0x2062 ide3=0x2058-0x205F,0x2066
bf24 ide2=0x2050-0x2057,0x2062,11 ide3=0x2058-0x205F,0x2066,11
Some of these get *close*---it *seems*. On at least one of the above combinations, I saw boot messages pass by quickly that *looked* like the kernel had successfully read the "hde" and "hdg" HDDs. But, alas, three screens later it informed me that I didn't have and HDDs! I also saw something about the "HPT302" being recognized, but I can't give you the exact messages, because they scroll by, and I don't know how to stop them or save them on an install like this!
So, anyway, I got the information that I tried above from booting back into the newly-installed RH9 system, and trying to look at anything that I thought might be valuable (more for the experts than for me! ;-) What I found is below.
Any help would be *greatly* appreciated! Thanks-in-advance, Bruce.
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Red Hat *successful* install information (for reference for Debian):
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#dmesg | less
:
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
:
hde: ST380011A, ATA disk drive (<--Seagate 80GB #1)
:
hdg: ST380011A, ATA disk drive (<--Seagate 80GB #2)
:
ide2 at 0x2050-0x2057, 0x2062 on IRQ 11
ide3 at 0x2058-0x205F, 0x2066 on IRQ 11
:
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
:
----------------------------------------------------------------------If you read this far, *really* thanks! ;-) Bruce.
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