Hi Mike, Thanks for your advice. If I have following connection Drive 1 - Master, Primary IDE of motherboard Drive 2 - Slave, Primary IDE of motherboard Drive 2 - Master, Controller slot-1 Drive 3 - Master, Controller slot-2 How will the drive designation displayed? B.R. Stephen On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 23:53, Mike Burger wrote: > On 17 Aug 2003, Stephen Liu wrote: > > > Hi Joe, > > > > On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 17:05, Joe wrote: > > > > > >Sorry I don't understand "fully transparent to the OS" > > > > > > > Meaning the raid hardware just makes it look like a normal drive to the OS - > > > > Yes, > > > > Running DOS - cd\C: or cd\D: works > > Running Win2K - Drive-C and Drive-D both are visible > > > > > > >I have tried to install RH9.0 after having installed Win2K. It asked > > > >where to install RH9.0, hda or hdc. There was not hdb therefore I > > > >hesitate to proceed. > > > > > > > So rh sees a primary disk on the primary controller, and a primary disk > > > on the secondar controller - but not a secondary disk on the primary > > > controller, are you sure you have such a setup? > > > > Yes. > > There are 2 slots on the Controller and each drive is connected to each > > one slot separately. Do you mean hda and hdc representing each drive? > > Why hdb is missing? > > Because, in addition to having two slots on the controller, you can (and > usually do) have two connectors on each cable connected to those slots. > > The card doesn't treat IDE disk assignments any differently than built-in, > on-the-motherboard IDE controllers do: > > IDE0=first IDE "slot" or connector on the card (or motherboard, etc). > IDE1=second IDE "slot" or connector on the card (or motherboard, etc). > > IDE0-Disk 1-hda > IDE0-Disk 2-hdb > IDE1-Disk 1-hdc > IDE1-Disk 2-hdd > > If you were to take your "D:" drive off of the second "slot", set it to > slave, and put it on the second connector of the cable attached to the > first "slot", you'd find that you have hda and hdb, instead of hda and > hdc. > > -- > Mike Burger > http://www.bubbanfriends.org Got an I Care HK! Idea? Go to http://www.iCareHK.com/iCarehk/index.html to Submit. -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
