On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 02:11:14PM -0500, Ron Stordahl wrote: > I am at this point: "Configure Device Driver Modules." The first item in > the menu is > > block Discs and disk-like devices > > Yes I have discs! so I select that and the choices are: > > cpqarray -. What????
Compaq RAID array
> linear - Multiple-Disk driver, linear (append) mode.
> paride - What????
Parallel IDE (Zip Disk)
> raid0 - Multiple-Disk Driver, striping mode
> raid1 - Multiple-Disk Driver, mirroring mode
> raid5 - Multiple-Disk Driver, raid4/5....
> xd - XT had disk controller
>
> Well.....none of these seem to be IDE drives so can I assume that driver
> will be installed automatically??
Yes.
> If so, so stating on that page would seem like a sensible thing to do.
There's an installation manual, you know. You can find a copy at
<a debian mirror>/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/doc/install.en.txt
I can deduce that you didn't read the installation manual first. If
you had, you could have read this:
Generally, the Debian installation system includes support for
floppies, IDE drives, IDE floppies, parallel port IDE devices, SCSI
controllers and drives. The file systems supported include MINIX,
FAT, Win-32 FAT extensions (VFAT), among others (note that NTFS is not
supported by the installation system; you can add it later, as
described in Section 8.4, `Compiling a New Kernel').
Rather than attempting to describe the supported hardware, it is much
easier to describe the Linux supported hardware which is _not_
supported by the Debian boot system.
The disk interfaces that emulate the ``AT'' hard disk interface which
are often called MFM, RLL, IDE, or ATA are supported. Very old 8 bit
hard disk controllers used in the IBM XT computer are supported only
as a module. SCSI disk controllers from many different manufacturers
are supported. See the Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO
(http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html) for more details.
Not supported are IDE SCSI drives and some SCSI controllers, including
* EATA-DMA protocol compliant SCSI Host Adapters like the
SmartCache III/IV, SmartRAID controller families and the DPT
PM2011B and PM2012B controllers.
* The 53c7 NCR family of SCSI controllers (but 53c8 and 5380
controllers are supported)
HTH,
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