this ain't scsi but IDE-raid controler. You may be able to resize partitions to maek room for linux. Can't say. However, it strongly depends on what type of RAID is used (RIAD 0 or RAID1) what your options are. Splitting the disks to get 2 seperate disks is probably quite difficult and also not what you want. On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Lee Maschmeyer wrote: > Hi all, > > I bought a new computer on Sunday. One of the reasons I chose it is that > they said it has two hard drives already installed, so I figured I'd just > reformat one of them to hold Linux (Fedora as of now). The "expert" at the > store assured me that if I did this Windows would no longer see that disk > and wouldn't mess with it. > > It turns out that the "disk" is a RAID (Promise 2+0 approximately). When I > tried to install Linux last night, both FC2 and 3 said there were no hard > disks, or at the very least that there were none Linux could use. They > didn't even ask if I wanted to remove non-Linux partitions. > > Does anybody know about these? Is it possible to turn them into two separate > disks, or is it possible to partition it to make room for some EXT3 systems? > Note that the Red Hat Hardware Compatibility List is about two years old and > thus of very questianable value. > > Thanks, > > -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: andor@xxxxxxxxxxxx student computer science www: http://www.nl.linux.org/~andor UU based & VU guest-student jabber,icq,msn,voip: do ask ;) ----------- chairman Stichting Studiereizen Storm 2002-2004 vice-chairman USF Studentenbelangen executive committee 2002-2003 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list