[marcalj]

Hello all, i'm setup a server and I have 4 hard disc drives, i one there's a Win partition and RedHat 8 partition. The othes hdd's are FAT32 partitions. I don't have any RAID system or wherever strange thing

when kernel starts booting shows this:

VP_IDE: VIA vt8231 (rev 10) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:11.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddMA
hda: ST320011A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: ST340810A, ATA DISK drive
hdc: ST340810A, ATA DISK drive
hdd: ST340810A, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=38792/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdb: 78165360 sectors (40021 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4865/255/63, UDMA(100)
hdd: 78165360 sectors (40021 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=77545/16/63, UDMA(100)
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 >
hdb: hdb1
hdd: [PTBL] [4865/255/63] hdd1
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is unknown type 15 (usb?), fd1 is unknown type 12 (usb?)
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.

and down...

SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices

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Kernel detect me an SCSI disc?? it's strange, I have 4 IDE's....only detects 3 as IDE.....

Also in the grub boot:

title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-14)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.18-14.img
title DOS
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

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HELP!! i'm vety annoying!!

PC it's an VIA C3 Epia 800MHz.

Sorry for my poor english.

Thanks!!

[hartman]

I will take a stab at it but this is just what I THINK migth be the problem

kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi

The system is not seeing hdc becuase i think the above line it telling it is a scsi drive when it is a IDE. try this line instead

kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/

Again this is just my quess.

Hartman

[marcalj]

hello hartman I deleted this line but after reboot i'm still have the same problem.

When I installed RedHat I installed with 2 hdd's in the ide1 port and a cd-rom drive in "hdc" (primary of IDE2 port). Maybe this is the problem, now I only have 4 hhd's and no cd-rom drives.

I'm very confused....any suggestion?

[hartman]

marcalj,

I believe that each IDE channell can have only 2 devices each. So if you have IDEa and IDEb you can only have 4 total devices. Thus you can have only 4 drive and no CD-ROM or 3 drives and a CD-ROM

Hartman

[marcalj]

yeah....I agree

but its confusing....why I can't mount "hdc" in fact? you can see kernel recognised all my 4 hdd's but in disc manager only I view 3...

Jesus!!

[hartman]

I'm not sure either, sorry

[Dolda2000]

The CD-ROM was a CD writer, right?
It is necessary to use it as a SCSI disk, since the IDE drivers have no support for CD writing, and there are only CD writing applications for SCSI, too. I don't know which is the reason for the other.
Therefore, IDE CD writers are emulated as SCSI drives by the kernel if that kernel option is present, and installation scripts usually add it for CD writers. Actually, if your device is emulated as SCSI, it should be available via /dev/scd0. Try mounting it and see if it's there.
Deleting that option should, however, have corrected the problem. Check if it is in your /etc/modules.conf, too. That might be the problem. It must not be specified in either place if you wish to use hdc as an IDE drive.

[marcalj]

Hi Dolda2000, was no possible, it's a wrong device too....and in modules.conf there's no information about it....I will re-install entire OS but in a CDrom drive mode...I will have the same problem??

I hope don't....

See you and thanks to all !!

[Dolda2000]

Hey, don't reinstall just yet!
Check some things first.
Could you give me the contents of your /proc/ide dir, /proc/scsi (if it exists), /proc/devices and /proc/modules?
You might not have to reinstall.

[marcalj]

doesn't matter, I reinstalled entire OS...now works fine....I only had the OS, nothing else, so, doesn't matter... xDD

LINUX IS THE BEST OS I HAVE TRIED!!!!! LINUX r000000lz, jejeje, i'm very happy

Thanks for all