Now, after 4 hours of work, I've finally managed to install potato using the linux driver from Promise. If someone is interested in the exact way I did it, I could provide a description.
Jonas Am Samstag, 26. Mai 2001 18:55 schrieb Jonas Wolz: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install Potato (2.2r2) on a box with two harddisks connected > to a Promise PDC20265 controller in RAID 0 mode (the two harddisks appear > like one, big harddisk). > With the UDMA66 kernel, the system boots up fine, and it recognizes a disk > connected to the controller as /dev/hde, but the kernel thinks that > /dev/hde has only the size of _one_ disk, not the sizes of _both_ disks > together. One effect of this is that the partition table is considered > corrupt: The primary NTFS partition is considered to extend over the end of > the drive and the logical NTFS and FAT partitions inside a extended > partition (where the linux partitions should go, too) are not found. > > Has anybody a idea how to fix this, so that the correct size is recognized > ? > > TIA, > > Jonas
