[ale] Machine With Drives @ e,f,g,h: help?

[bugfix4u2 at bellsouth.net (Denny Chambers)]

I am assuming that the Promise controller is an add in (meaning that it 
is not built onto the mother board). I have seen similar cards that 
allowed you to make the add-in controller the primary controller. These 
add in controller have there own Bios on board, much like SCSI cards do. 
So during boot the bios should try to read from the add-in controller 
Primary->Master drive. This may possible require a jumper setting on the 
mother board. I am not sure.

HTH,

Denny

Danny Cox wrote:

>Howdy!
>
>	I've gotten a 1U machine with 4 drives, and a slim CD rom drive.  The
>controler for the CD rom has the usual layout: hd{a,b,c,d}, with the CD
>rom on hda.  Another chipset, a Promise 20276 has the drives
>hd{e,f,g,h}.  Red Hat 8.1 and 7.3 refuse to install on it (not finding
>any drives), and at least one phrase in their installation notes implies
>that I'm SOL because the BIOS (and therefore LILO and GRUB) can only
>access the first four drives.
>
>	What say ye?  Do I have any chance at all, or in the immortal words of
>Norm (Cheers), "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone
>underwear!"
>
>  
>

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