Re: RH73 Promise ATA/133 Install Problems

[John Bradford]

> >>I have a  Gigabyte GA-7VRXP motherboard which has an on-board
> >>Promise 20276 ATA133/RAID controller. I want to install RH73, on the
> >>two ATA133 drives connected to the Promise controller. I've set up
> >>the motherboard BIOS with the Promise 20276 interfaces as ATA (not
> >>RAID), and I want to install on the two drives in a software RAID
> >>configuration.
> >>
> >>If I start the standard RH73 install it does not identify the two drives 
> >>connected to the Promise interfaces.
> >>
> >
> >Support for the Promise 20276 went in to the kernel at 2.4.19-pre6.
> >
> >Can you get to a command prompt and post the output of lspci -v -v?
> >Maybe it has a non standard PCI id and is not being recognised.

> # lspci -v -v
> 
> 00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20276 IDE (rev 
> 01) (prog-if 85)
> Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology: Unknown device b001

That might be the problem.  If that ID is added to the correct list it
may well work.

John.