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

[danscox at mindspring.com (Danny Cox)]

All,

On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 17:52, Danny Cox wrote:
> 	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.

	Well, with a little more looking, and an extra IDE cable, I was able to
use the 2nd on-board IDE controller, and it boots just fine, now.  So, I
have:

	hda:		CDROM
	hdc,e,f,g:	WD 800BB

Thanks for all the answers!, I really do appreciate it!

-- 
kernel, n.: A part of an operating system that preserves the
medieval traditions of sorcery and black art.

Danny

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