here's my basic setup:

k7s5a pro

penguin gear IDE raid controller w/ SIL680-Raid chip
controlling 2 120 gig drives configured as RAID 1.

2 partitions on main 60 gig disc Win XP and Suse 9.3 using grub


After setting up the Mirroring in controller BIOS i booted into WIN xp, and it recognizes the Array as 1 disc. After formatting (NTFS) ,was able to load files with no problem.

Booted into suse, recognized disc controller, and installed it as Sis5513 disk controller.

Both drives show up under disc manager

cannot access either drive from my computer, error says: could not mount device. The reported eror was: mount: can't find /dev/hde1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

the two drives are hde & dge in yast partitioner

the ntfs partitions are listed as hde1 and hdg1 respectively

How in the heck do i get suse to recognize this raid array so i can use it to back up files.

I am new to linux, and have just dove in headfirst trying to learn as much as I can. Thanks for the help


Also, everytime i reboot, suse asks to reinstall my intellimouse, and printer. Any ideas on how to stop this?

Thanks

any ideas guys ? I am at a loss

Is this the dumbest question ever? or does no one really have any idea?

I would appreciate any help. Thanks

Ok can you post what you see in /proc/partitions

Also run the command

And find the bit where the controller is detected and paste that here too.

Thanks for the help, here is what i get if proc/partitions


3 64 60032448 hdb
3 65 10314823 hdb1
3 66 1 hdb2
3 67 1020127 hdb3
3 68 13237560 hdb4
3 69 35439358 hdb5



dmesg gave a lot of info, i tried to pull out everything about hard drives

ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:02.5
SIS5513: chipset revision 208
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
SIS5513: SiS735 ATA 100 (2nd gen) controller
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff08-0xff0f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddMA Probing IDE interface ide0...
hdb: Maxtor 96147H6, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: _NEC NR-7700A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1502, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hdb: max request size: 128KiB
hdb: 120064896 sectors (61473 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdb: cache flushes not supported
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 > hdb3 hdb4
hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
hdd: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33) Attempting manual resume
PM: Checking swsusp image.
swsusp: Suspend partition has wrong signature?
PM: Resume from disk failed.
ReiserFS: hdb4: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: hdb4: using ordered data mode
reiserfs: using flush barriers
ReiserFS: hdb4: journal params: device hdb4, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hdb4: checking transaction log (hdb4)
reiserfs: disabling flush barriers on hdb4
ReiserFS: hdb4: Using r5 hash to sort names
ReiserFS: hdb4: Removing [45132 108606 0x0 SD]..done
ReiserFS: hdb4: There were 1 uncompleted unlinks/truncates. Completed
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
Adding 1020116k swap on /dev/hdb3. Priority:42 extents:1
device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com



This is pulled from Yast ---

silicone integrated SIS5513 EIDE controller (A, B step) No


Thanks for all your help, let me know if you need any more info

OK it seems that linux has found your onboard ide controller but I can not see any information about the raid controller. You say that yast has hde and dgm can you get the list from the command lcpci

This should show what pci cards have been found, it could be that the controller is found but not configured it would also be interesting to see if there is any output in the dmesg about hde which you said was available but is not listed in /proc/partitions

Hello,

I had the same problems with another IDE-RAID Controller.

If you want to mount the volume you have to use the Raid-Device

With your mount you wanted to mount the single ide-drive.

What worked for me were some Kernel-Parameter

"hd?=noprobe ..."

This parameter prevents the probing for ide drives.

sorry i took so long to get back to this post. didn't want you to think i didn't appreciate the help. just got really busy with my last semester of school and trying to find a job (still looking). anyways if your still willing i'd like to figure this out.


here's what i get with lspci:

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 735 Host (rev 01)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)
0000:00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS85C503/5513 (LPC Bridge)
0000:00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
0000:00:02.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07)
0000:00:02.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07)
0000:00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0)
0000:00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 90)
0000:00:0b.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. (formerly CMD Technology Inc) PCI0680 Ultra ATA-133 Host Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
0000:00:0d.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 07)
0000:00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:00:11.0 Communication controller: Conexant HCF 56k Data/Fax Modem (rev 08)
0000:00:13.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50)
0000:00:13.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50)
0000:00:13.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2)


it appears the raid controller shows up there, and it also shows up within suseplugger in addition to the onboard IDE controller.

Thanks for any help.

i appreciate your help, and kind of understand what you want me to do, but am unable to follow without a bit more of a step by step. not that advanced...