Subject: Re: Ordering the IDE devices...
From: Jim Gribbin (jgribbin@alaska.net)
Date: Thu Aug 07 2003 - 23:29:33 AKDT
There is a kernel option switch called 'ide=reverse', it could be that
your distro has something in one of the start-up scripts that detects an
add-on ide card and assumes you would prefer to use it as your main
controller.
You might check 'dmesg' to see if its being used or add ide=reverse to
grub or lilo to see if it will change back.
Jim Gribbin
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 16:30, Joshua J.Kugler wrote:
> We just purchased, for our server, a very nice Promise Ultra133 TX2 dual IDE
> controller. Works fine: boots up, detects drives, Mandrake install
> recognizes it, and everything.
>
> The problem comes when it's time to partition. My two big drives (each
> masters on their channel on the TX2) show up as hda and hdc. The master
> drive hanging off the primary channel on the motherboard shows up as hde.
> Not what I was intending.
>
> 1. Is there anything wrong with this? Can I put /boot on hde and still have
> lilo write to the MBR on hda and boot from there?
>
> 2. Is there any way to modify this? The Promise controller doesn't come up
> with any options when it boots, or any way to modify its configuration.
>
> I just wasn't planning on making one of my RAID 1 /home drives hda and boot
> from there. If one of the /home mirrors fails, I still want to be able to
> boot the system (preferably without a floppy).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
> j----- k-----
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