Install problem, RAID

[Christian Schoepplein]

Hi!

On Do, Aug 26, 2004 at 05:18:21 -0500, John Heim wrote:
> Has anyone ever installed Red Hat AS on a machine with a RAID controller. 
> It's not finding the HDs.  The reason I'm askingt here is that I 've heard 
> you might have to configure the RAID controller via the BIOS. Which I can't 
> do.
> 
> I'm booting from a diskette and doing a serial install. It sees the Red Hat 
> CD in the CD drive and comes up saying it wants to load these additional 
> drivers:
> 
> Intel EtherExpress/100 driver (e100)              |
> DEC 21040, most 21*40 Ethernet (tulip)            |
> Adaptec AHA-2740, 28xx, 29xx, 39xx (aic7xxx)      |
> Adaptec AACRAID (aacraid)                         |
> 
> 
> A couple of screens later it offers me a chance to partition the HDs but 
> then it errors out saying no devices are found. But it looks like it should 
> hve been able to access them since it found the SCSI card and the SCSI 
> adapter.

I have never installed Red Hat before and I have never used RAID, but 
AFAIK the disks are called hde, hdf, hdg... and not hda, hdb...... if 
RAID is used. Maybe that helps.

Ciao,
Schoepp

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