FastTrack 133 "Lite" or why there is no /dev/hda

Chadley Wilson chadley at pinteq.co.za
Sun Mar 21 18:21:40 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 20:17, Martin Mewes wrote:
> Hi Chadley,
> 
> Am Sonntag, 21. März 2004 18:19 schrieb Chadley Wilson:
> > On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 18:30, Martin Mewes wrote:
> > > They are not present in the BIOS because the IDE-Drives are
> > > handled by the IDE-Raid-Hardware. Looks like something to work
> > > on.
> >
> > IIRC
> > I had four serial ATA drives in a system last week that was running
> > on the promise controller these drives weren't detected in the bios
> > but but by the controller, I had to make a driver disk for the
> > first installation and then I couldn't find the device on /dev/hd-
> > after some playing they were actually on /dev/sda b c and d.
> 
> Actually this is a Promise-Chip as well ;-)
Quite right I couldn't remember Sorry!





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