Hi Robert, > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 10:39 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mark Stewart > Subject: Re: [expert] using Highpoint RAID as regular IDE controller >
> Mandrakesoft have publicly stated they will not support the soft raid > implimentation of the hpt 37X series chips ( note you do not > intend this) but > as an extra ide port it should work OK. > Take a look in the bios settings for another switch that affects > the controler > ( often on another page boot order and the like ) also check if > you have a > hardware conflict. The IRQ used by the controller is often shared > with one of > the pci slots. I have an abit KT7-radid board with a hpt 370 > which has never > given issues with mandrake 8.0 thru 8.3. My board manual warns > about using > PCI slot 5 and the hpt together so I leave slot 5 empty. > As I said mandrake has never given me a problem but I have had > some issues > with SuSE 8.0 but after some messing around I got that to work too. > I believe newer highpoint devices will NOT support non hard disc types of > drives so don't put you cdrom on it. > As a final solution a quick search on google with highpoint 372 > as the search > string turned up a number of help related pages. > Hope this has been of some help > Thanks for the info. In my case, there are no PCI boards (the nForce has both builtin sound and LAN) but I suppose the IRQs could still be an issue since builtin or not they each must still require one. (The manual doesn't talk about IRQ conflicts involving these devices but...) I've only occasionally had to turn PnP off in the BIOS before installing Linux and since I'd been able to install 8.2 without any issues outside of the Highpoint controller with it still enabled I hadn't considered it a problem. Perhaps I'll give that a try. cheers, ::mark
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