Last January I tried to install a RocketRaid 1520A card and my 160 GB SATA drive to do volcopies of my /dev/hdb (fedora) drive and I blew away my /dev/hdb drive.
I want to try again.
I am trying to get help. I have contacted HighPoint and they had me print out their "RocketRAID 152x Controller, Fedora Linux, Installation Guide".
I have read it but I don't fully understand it. I have also went to the HighPoint site and printed out their readme.txt file. I hope someone out there has done a similar install and can help me.

I have the following drives on my dual booted (XP2 and Fedora 5) Dell Dimension 4500.

/dev/hda 40 GB IDE for windows
/dev/hdb 120 GB IDE for Fedora
/dev/sda 80 GB CMS SATA backup for XP on it own card
/dev/sdb 160 GB SATA to be backup for Linux to be on the Rocket Raid 1520 card.

I need to know how to proceed. What I am trying to do now is get the drivers for the Rocket Raid 1520 on to a floppy drive so I can install them on Fedora.
Any advice would be appreciated. Is there an equivalent of the Geeks for windows for linux?

Haven't used this card but if you've got something where a vendor is giving documentation about Linux you're ahead of the game.

Looking at their site I found:
http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/bios_rr1520.htm

This has the drivers bundle which is a tar.gz.

You'd have to download the file from there to your Linux partition.

The you can run:
tar tvzf RR152x-Fedora-2.1.6-1111.tgz
To see what is in the bundle.

You can then run:
tar xvzf RR152x-Fedora-2.1.6-1111.tgz
To extract what is in the bundle.

That should give you the following files.
Install_Fedora_RR152x.pdf
Readme.txt
rr152x-fedora-1-i386.img
rr152x-fedora-2.img
rr152x-fedora-3.img
rr152x-fedora-4.img
rr152x-fedora-5.img
rr152x-fedora-6.img

The pdf is a document you can read with Adobe Acrobat.

The Readme.txt is flat ascii you can read with cat, more, or vi. It tells you the .img files are for specific versions of Fedora (1 through 6).

These are floppy images - to copy out to floppy you should just need to run:

dd if=<file>.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k

Where "<file>.img" is the one appropriate for you distro (e.g. rr152x-fedora-5.img for Fedora Core 5).

Thank you for your help. I have down loaded rr152x-fedora-5.img to my floppy. Now the instructions I got from the Highpoint site tell me I need to update either /etc/lilo.conf or /etc/grub.conf. Since I use grub,
I will want to edit /etc/grub which now looks like this:

cat grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd1,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.20-1.2316.fc5)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2316.fc5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.20-1.2316.fc5.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2257.fc5)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.img
title Other
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
My grub.conf doesn't look like the one in the Hihgpoint document so I don't know how to proceed.

Here is the grub info from the 152x Installation Guide

. If you are using Grub to boot your system, update /etc/grub.conf.
E.g.
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinux hde=noprobe hdf=noprobe hdg=noprobe
hdh=noprobe ro root=LABLE=/
initrd /initrd.img

The kernel parameters, "hdx=noprobe", are used to prevent Fedora Core kernel from loading the default HPT3xx IDE driver. When your system has other IDE interfaces supported by Linux, you may need to modify “hdx=noprobe” according to your hardware configuration.
Then reboot the system to make new kernel parameter take effect.

Since these file don't look alike, I don't know how to proceed.

I got this above info from using the "RocketRaid 152x Controller, Fedora Linux, Installation Guide", section 3 "Installing RR152x driver on existing System".

Again, I am very concerned about losing my linux /dev/hb1 home drive like I did last January.