I have the GA-7NNXP mobo with the extra IDE's and I am having trouble with the extra ide channels.

My set up is 2 x cdrom on ide 0
1 sata hdd on /dev/sda
2 x ata hdd on ide 1 /dev/hda and /dev/hdb

And 2 extra ata hdd on ide 2 The GigaRAID connections but linux is unable to see them I am trying to find drivers / setting to be able to use these extra drives.

I am running Ubuntu Breezy Badger 5.10
uname -a = Linux Ubuntu 2.6.12-10-386 #1 Mon Jan 16 17:18:08 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

Can/will anybody point me in the right direction I am trying to get linux to see them so therefor used my extra 2 hdd attached to the GigaRAID.

The 2 extra drives are both matrix 120 gig ata drives. Now they are connected via ide 2 (ide 0 = 2xcdrom ide1=2xhdd and 1xsata on the sata connection).

the mobo specs are as per the gigabyte website...

Processor

1. Socket A for AMD AthlonXP / Athlon / Duron processor

Chipset

1. NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400 System Platform Processor (SPP)
2. Media and Communications Processor - Turbo (MCP-T)
3. Super I/O: ITE IT8712F chip
4. Silicon Image sil3112A controller
5. GigaRAID ATA 133 RAID controller
6. Intel 82540EM Gigabit LAN chip
7. Realtek 8201 LAN PHY Chip
8. Realtek ALC650/655 Audio AC'97 Codec
9. 2 x 4M bit flash ROM

Front Side Bus

1. 400/333/266 MHz FSB

Memory

1. Type Dual Channel DDR400/ 333/ 266- 184pin
2. Max capacity: Up to 3GB by 4 DIMM slots

Internal I/O Connectors

1. 2 x Serial ATA connector
2. 4 x UDMA ATA 133/100/66 Bus Master IDE connectors
3. 1 x FDD connector
4. 1 x USB 2.0/1.1 connectors(support 2 ports)
5. 2 x IEEE 1394 connectors ( supports 3 ports)
6. S/P DIF input/output pin header
7. 3 x cooling fan pin headers
8. WOL pin header
9. CD/AUX in
10. 1 x Game/Midi connector

Now all that info isnt needed but it is there to give somebody an idea what I am dealing with.

I have tried a complete re-installs of Ubuntu and so at present my system is a standard Ubuntu install with updates via apt-get.

PS the drives work in windows XP ok so not a hardware problem just a simple case of software drivers and settings.

I am not a noob but not exactly a guru either this one has stumpted me cannot seem to find out where to start with these. I have checked gigabytes website but they do not offer linux driver as far as I can tell. Nvidia offer linux driver but they only seem to be for the sound and LAN.

Please I would like to get these drives working under linux first as normal ata drive so I can re-arrange the files onto other drives then turn them into a raid array for mass storage etc.

output from various commants are..

~$ mount

/dev/sda3 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
tmpfs on /lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/volatile type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /home type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hdb1 on /media/hdb1 type vfat (rw)
/dev/hdb2 on /media/hdb2 type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda2 on /shared32 type vfat (rw)
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,size=10M,mode=0755)

~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80032038912 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9730 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 4863 39062016 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 4864 9730 39094177+ b W95 FAT32

Disk /dev/hdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 3902 31342783+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hdb2 * 3903 19079 121909252+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb3 19080 19457 3036285 5 Extended
/dev/hdb5 19080 19457 3036253+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sda: 37.0 GB, 37019566080 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4500 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 6 48163+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 7 371 2931862+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 372 4500 33166192+ 83 Linux

~$ df -H

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 34G 3.2G 29G 10% /
tmpfs 531M 0 531M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 531M 13M 518M 3% /lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/volatile
/dev/sda1 47M 16M 29M 36% /boot
/dev/hda1 40G 308M 38G 1% /home
/dev/hdb1 33G 23G 9.3G 72% /media/hdb1
/dev/hdb2 123G 91G 27G 78% /media/hdb2
/dev/hda2 41G 33k 41G 1% /shared32