Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] IDE Raid Controler.

[Dominic R. <dl...@ed...>]

Chris Grove wrote:
> Hi guys, I'm looking for some advice regarding DL and IDE Raid Controllers. 
> The problem I've got is this. I've got a "Ultra ATA 133 PCI to IDE Raid 
> Controller Card Adapter" with a VIA chipset from ebay and I've put it in my 
> dl machine. But that's where to problems start. DL picks it up fine, it 
> shows it in lspci and it even moves my main IDE controller to ports 2 and 3 
> but it doesn't pick up any drives I attach to it. I thought it might be that 
> the card needs setting up in some way, like the old SCSI controllers 
> sometimes do, but it doesn't even have one of those "Press Ctrl+A to enter 
> setup" prompts during booting. Is there some command I need to use to 
> initialize the drives? Please help, Thanks in advance, Chris. 
>   
I found some VIA RAID controller instructions here 
<http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=2&ved=0CBAQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fold.msikorea.kr%2Fprogram%2Fsupport%2Fmanual%2Ffiles%2F7142v1.0%2520Via%2520Raid.pdf&ei=vzffSu_RAqLSjAfzovCkBg&usg=AFQjCNHSsjTX4UQfu4fpzKkVwnqtLhWGbw&sig2=LqbbGNQA-aLtkSH6lXfW0g> 
by googling, suggests that you press TAB during the POST (Power On 
Self-Test) process to enter the RAID BIOS configuration. This was for 
VT8237 but probably the same for others they may have made. HTH

Dominic