Hi, I've been trying for some time now to install RedHat on an Intel S845WD1-E board, which uses a Promise PDC20267 controller. I tried RH 7.3 and 8, either the installer doesn't see any devices, or it uses the Promise drives as normal IDE drives. In that case the install runs fine, but when I reset the machine, it fails booting, presumably because the Promise BIOS looks for the boot loader seomewhere in the array which didn't get used. Installing in expert mode and using the Promise binary driver disk fails because the machine doesn't have a floppy drive, and when I connect one, the Promise BIOS hangs so that booting is not possible. Besides, I'd prefer not to use binary-only drivers. I now have a harddisk with a RedHat 8 installation connected to the i845 chipset IDE, and tried different kernels. Some try to use the drives connected to the Promise controller as simple IDE drives, some don't, and every time I get the message Promise Fasttrak(tm) Softwareraid driver 0.03beta: No raid array found But the Promise BIOS sees the newly created RAID-1 partition just fine... telling from the other posts to this list, RAID-1 is supported these days. I feel somewhat out of options now. Things I'd like to know: - is it possible to get the pdcraid driver to recognize my array somehow? - is it possible to use the Promise controller as a simple IDE controller somehow without the Promise BIOS complaining? In that case I'd like to run Linux software RAID on it, and boot from it. - should I forget the Promise controller and use the i845 internal IDE bus? (The CDROM is connected to it, too, would that be a problem?) - http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/?pagename=details&hid=4852 lists the S845WD1-H which is logically identical to my S845WD1-E. The page tells me the Promise controller is "compatible", ease of install 100%. But - HOW?? Any kind of help is appreciated. I've spent about a week trying to install Linux on that machine now, thinking the problems I have are my fault. But I'm not so sure anymore. TIA, - Hanno
