Can you get Linux to run off hard drives on both channels of a Promise Ultra100?

Noriaki

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I've determined that Linux can use a hard drive that's on a Promise Ultra100.

here's the link I read

So I say linux ide2=0x####,0x#### to specify the I/O ranges for the first channel on the Promise. Or I could do it for ide3 with the appropriate numbers. Can you specify both? I have two hard drives in there....my main one has all the important stuff on it, but my 2nd one has Mp3s and stuff like that.

I would have thought it was just
linux ide2=0x####,0x#### ide3=0x####,0x####

But that didn't seem to work...I could see my main drive, but not my secondary (in the partitioning tool in mandrake setup). I only have Mandrake 7.0 not 7.2, is that a problem?

Pardon my Linux newbieishness but all I've used is Solaris workstations with SCSI disk, or I had linux on my PC once before I had the promise.
 

Soccerman

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bump for a good thread.

I have a Promise ATA66 card, and I ran Linux Mandrake 7.2 fine (though startup took forever cause it had to look through all the possible places where hard drives were, I never bothered to fix that problem).

I don't know much about linux though, which is why I'm bumping your thread :)
 

Soccerman

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keep in mind, I only had one Hard drive on the Promise controller, but that shouldn't affect anything IMHO, becuase it went through detection of each and every non-existant but potential device on every controller (onboard and PCI based).
 

spwango

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As far as I know, in Mandrake 7.2, the Ultra66 stuff was just hacked in. It is supposed to be a feature in the 2.4 kernel...for that you'll have to wait untill Mandrake 8--For now, 7.2 will probably get you by (you could compile the "hackish" module into your 7.0 distro if you wanted, too--but that's much more work)--but you'll want to keep your ears perked for the release of Mandrake 8, which is just now beta. I'm not sure about Ultra 100.
 

Noriaki

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But...

I have Primary Master as an IBM75GXP 45Gig and Secondary Master as a 30Gig...(both slaves are empty) and I can see the 45gig...I just want to be able to see both...but it's not working out for me...
 

Soccerman

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Noriaki, do you have broadband??

if so, just dl Mandrake 7.2, or the beta of Mandrake 8 (which is based on the 2.4 kernel).

If not, I could send you out a copy of 7.2 if you want..
 

Noriaki

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Yeah I'm on cable....

I could get 7.2 if it would help.

But the instructions on that site don't tell me how to activate both channels anyways. I do the instructions they give for 1 channel and it works fine. I just want both (greey I guess ;))