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#1 (**permalink**) 02-18-2008, 11:41 AM

I'm trying to do a new install with Slack 9.0. Made boot disk, but I have a
Promise Ultra100 controller card that my Seagate 120Gig drive runs off of.
Since it doesn't see this drive and controller, what parms should I use at
the boot prompt?

Thanks,
jt

#2 (**permalink**) 02-18-2008, 11:41 AM

Is that the '265? I had trouble with that chip on a Gigabyte GA-7ZXR ...
It worked ok with Linux as long as I switched it to ATA100 mode (as
opposed to RAID) I used it with Slack8.1 .. I believe the RAID function
is supposed to work now, but it still doesn't see it upon booting to my
knowledge ... You would have to either use a seperate boot drive on
another controller until you re-compile, or just use the ATA100 mode, as
I mentioned earlier. I had the same trouble with a '275 on my friend's
MB .. My ultimate solution was to upgrade to a 3Ware Escalade 7500-4LP
64-bit RAID controller. I also added a couple more drives for a total of
4 WD1200JB

I am (needless to say) MUCH happier with the performance

RAID-5 (2 drives interlaced, 1 XOR drive and 1 hot-spare) 240GB array
with plenty of redundancy.

jt wrote:
> I'm trying to do a new install with Slack 9.0. Made boot disk, but I have a
> Promise Ultra100 controller card that my Seagate 120Gig drive runs off of.
> Since it doesn't see this drive and controller, what parms should I use at
> the boot prompt?
>
> Thanks,
> jt
>
>

#3 (**permalink**) 02-18-2008, 11:42 AM

I do have it in the ATA 100 mode. Maybe it just doesn't support this Promise
card.

jt

"Haedn Thorn" <lordhaedn1@nospam.cox.net> wrote in message
news:2tLcb.11887$KJ4.28@news1.central.cox.net...
> Is that the '265? I had trouble with that chip on a Gigabyte GA-7ZXR ...
> It worked ok with Linux as long as I switched it to ATA100 mode (as
> opposed to RAID) I used it with Slack8.1 .. I believe the RAID function
> is supposed to work now, but it still doesn't see it upon booting to my
> knowledge ... You would have to either use a seperate boot drive on
> another controller until you re-compile, or just use the ATA100 mode, as
> I mentioned earlier. I had the same trouble with a '275 on my friend's
> MB .. My ultimate solution was to upgrade to a 3Ware Escalade 7500-4LP
> 64-bit RAID controller. I also added a couple more drives for a total of
> 4 WD1200JB

I am (needless to say) MUCH happier with the performance
>
> RAID-5 (2 drives interlaced, 1 XOR drive and 1 hot-spare) 240GB array
> with plenty of redundancy.
>
>
> jt wrote:
> > I'm trying to do a new install with Slack 9.0. Made boot disk, but I
have a
> > Promise Ultra100 controller card that my Seagate 120Gig drive runs off
of.
> > Since it doesn't see this drive and controller, what parms should I use
at
> > the boot prompt?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > jt
> >
> >
>
>

#4 (**permalink**) 02-18-2008, 11:42 AM

Here's the thing, Redhat 9.0 see's it and Mandrake see's it. Why not Slack?

jt

"Haedn Thorn" <lordhaedn1@nospam.cox.net> wrote in message
news:2tLcb.11887$KJ4.28@news1.central.cox.net...
> Is that the '265? I had trouble with that chip on a Gigabyte GA-7ZXR ...
> It worked ok with Linux as long as I switched it to ATA100 mode (as
> opposed to RAID) I used it with Slack8.1 .. I believe the RAID function
> is supposed to work now, but it still doesn't see it upon booting to my
> knowledge ... You would have to either use a seperate boot drive on
> another controller until you re-compile, or just use the ATA100 mode, as
> I mentioned earlier. I had the same trouble with a '275 on my friend's
> MB .. My ultimate solution was to upgrade to a 3Ware Escalade 7500-4LP
> 64-bit RAID controller. I also added a couple more drives for a total of
> 4 WD1200JB

I am (needless to say) MUCH happier with the performance
>
> RAID-5 (2 drives interlaced, 1 XOR drive and 1 hot-spare) 240GB array
> with plenty of redundancy.
>
>
> jt wrote:
> > I'm trying to do a new install with Slack 9.0. Made boot disk, but I
have a
> > Promise Ultra100 controller card that my Seagate 120Gig drive runs off
of.
> > Since it doesn't see this drive and controller, what parms should I use
at
> > the boot prompt?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > jt
> >
> >
>
>

#5 (**permalink**) 02-18-2008, 11:42 AM

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On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 08:26:27AM +0000, jt wrote:

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>
> Here's the thing, Redhat 9.0 see's it and Mandrake see's it. Why not Slack?

a) if you have to use a broken newsclient, at least use it properly,
and don't top-post.
thank you.

b) what driver/module are these other distributions using ?
is it a stock kernel supplied one or not ?
if not, that's why.
if it is, modprobe it.

Jurgen.

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#6 (**permalink**) 02-18-2008, 11:42 AM

At the boot prompt type linux ide2=0Xd800

/Tobbe

jt wrote:
> I'm trying to do a new install with Slack 9.0. Made boot disk, but I have a
> Promise Ultra100 controller card that my Seagate 120Gig drive runs off of.
> Since it doesn't see this drive and controller, what parms should I use at
> the boot prompt?
>
> Thanks,
> jt
>
>

#7 (**permalink**) 02-18-2008, 11:42 AM

You may want to check if you need a bios upgrade on the card if it's more
than a year or so old. That happened to me under XP as well, would boot
fine to 2k install CD disk on the controller though, wierd.

#8 (**permalink**) 02-18-2008, 11:59 AM

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:32:21 -0400, Leonard the Committed wrote:

> You may want to check if you need a bios upgrade on the card if it's
> more than a year or so old. That happened to me under XP as well, would
> boot fine to 2k install CD disk on the controller though, wierd.

I have a Promise Ultra133 controller card on my Duron box, and Slack 9.0
recognized it no problem. However, I wasn't sure what was going to happen
before I installed it, so I bounced over to the Promise website. I think
they have linux drivers for some of their older cards. And I think that
BIOS upgrade suggestion has some merit also.

--The Revenant

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