Drives not detected on PCI IDE Controller

rapskat · n00b Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Posts: 11

Greetings All

This is my first post, so please be gentle :-)

I'm attempting the pre-stage setup, I'm booting from the minimal image CD. I'm able to setup my NIC and networking fine, but when I attempt to partition and format only my CDROM is listed in /dev, none of my hard drives are being found.

Some background: The IDE Controller on my mobo is fragged (it has already been instrumental in the destruction of one hard drive), so I have all my drives but one on a PCI IDE Controller card. I only have the one CDROM on the mobo controller for booting.

With RH, my drives are listed as /dev/hda (Primary Master, DVDROM), /dev/hde (Primary Master, 40GB), /dev/hdf (Primary Slave, 60GB), /dev/hdg (Secondary Master, CDRW)

from the boot CD, a dmesg shows that the Controller card is seen but no devices from it are mapped.

I did some research and it seems that this is related to something called ide-pci.c? Is that right?

Any ideas on how I could get around this? I am really loathe to put any of my drives on the mobo controller for even a short time.

If you need more info, please let me know. Thanks in advance for any help!
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rac · Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2002 1:26 am Post subject:

ide-pci.c should already be included in the kernel. Do you know the model number of your IDE controller card? Could you post the line from dmesg that you saw recognizing it? If you say it works in RedHat, you might be in the same position as these folks. It might be easier for you to install Gentoo from inside a running RedHat, as is described in the alternative installation guide.

Hope this reassures you that you have many options - don't give up on Gentoo just yet!
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stardis · n00b Joined: 09 Jul 2002 Posts: 18

I have a maxtor ata100 pci controller and found that my hard drives were /dev/hde and /dev/hdf. I am not an expert on this. When I booted from the cd that I had downloaded I saw that the "pdc 20267" was listed there and the drives also. I had to enable support for the "promise pdc 202xx" in the make menuconfig to make it work. I could never fdisk the drives by typing /dev. Only /dev/hde would give me access.