Re: Installing Potato with Promise RAID controller

[Jonas Wolz <jwolz@freenet.de>]

Now, after 4 hours of work, I've finally managed to install potato using the 
linux driver from Promise.
If someone is interested in the exact way I did it, I could provide a 
description.

Jonas


Am Samstag, 26. Mai 2001 18:55 schrieb Jonas Wolz:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install Potato (2.2r2) on a box with two harddisks connected
> to a Promise PDC20265 controller in RAID 0 mode (the two harddisks appear
> like one, big harddisk).
> With the UDMA66 kernel, the system boots up fine, and it recognizes a disk
> connected to the controller as /dev/hde, but the kernel thinks that
> /dev/hde has only the size of _one_ disk, not the sizes of _both_ disks
> together. One effect of this is that the partition table is considered
> corrupt: The primary NTFS partition is considered to extend over the end of
> the drive and the logical NTFS and FAT partitions inside a extended
> partition (where the linux partitions should go, too) are not found.
>
> Has anybody a idea how to fix this, so that the correct size is recognized
> ?
>
> TIA,
>
> Jonas