[Gllug] A technical question on ABIT KT7A boards

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On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, jane taylor wrote:

> I've got a KT7A (RAID) motherboard currently working in my main
> machine. Up until now it's been working on the regular IDE slots with
> four UDMA-33 or older standard  IDE devices. But I've now got a 40GB
> UDMA 100 HDD on the extra IDE controller, which was visible and
> formattable under W2K but so far is being resoundingly invisible to
> Linux. This is now my main data disk, so I could do with seeing it.  
> 
> Am I right in thinking that I need to have SCSI support enabled in my
> kernel to see this (non-mirrored) disk in addition to my usual four
> devices, and that it will then be visible as /dev/sda?  Am I being
> optimistic? Has anyone tried this? (I'm asking before leaping as I
> have a nice stable system right now...)

you need to compile up or insmod the hpt366 driver.
i have a VP6, i believe it uses the same controller for the additional IDE
controller.

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