Re: [SLE] Disk order swapped under 9.1

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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 11:06:18 -0400
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Johan Nielsen wrote:
> Torsdag den 19. august 2004 16:25 skrev James Knott:
>
>>Johan Nielsen wrote:
>>
>>>Torsdag den 19. august 2004 10:16 skrev Per Jessen:
>>>
>>>>Ti Kan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Plausible explanation. However you should also look at the
>>>>>INITRD_MODULES= line in your /etc/sysconfig/kernel file. This specifies
>>>>>kernel modules that should be loaded early in the boot process, before
>>>>
>>>>Ah yes, very true. I never use a stock SuSE kernel and almost never use
>>>>an initrd, so it didn't occur to me to mention that.
>>>
>>>Trying to summarize is this the issue/reason when ide-devices is "found"
>>>before SATA devices (ASUS P4C800E-Deluxe board).
>>>
>>>And what about the case with Promise ide-controllers they're also
>>>detected before drives on regular controllers (read controllers on the
>>>main board) ??
>>
>>This is probably the cause of the problem on my system. I have the hard
>>drives connected to the Promise controller. In Red Hat 7.3, they were
>>seen as hde & hdg. Now, with SuSe 9.0, they're hda & hdc.
>>Then, when I try to install Win4Lin, they appear as hde & hdg again and
>>clobbers the system, when I try to boot.
>
>
>
> Oh let me clarify a thing .....
>
> I was talking about promise ide-cards. But the same goes when you use the
> built-in controller on the board .....
>
> But as of now I don't think that there's support for the use of all "SATA and
> IDE-devices" at one time on a P4C800E-Deluxe board yet (work in progress I
> suspect)
>
> As I understand it right now you can use one of the "regular" IDE-interfaces
> and the promise interface that's built in at the same time. Linux doesn't
> mind which of the two regular IDE-interfaces that is (This alltogether with
> the SATA interfaces in use).
>
> When "full" support for the chipset is achieved it should be possible to use
> all 8 devices (so lets see what the future brings ;-)
>
> Johan
>

I don't have any SATA ports on this motherboard. However, there are two
  each standard and Promise controller connectors. Both hard drives are
plugged into their own Promise connector. The CD-RW and DVD drives
share one standard IDE connector.

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