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I have a pci card labeled "Maxtor sata/150" with no documentation at all(I got it with a sata hard drive). It has three plugs on top, one for Ultra/ATA and two for Serial ATA A little research seems to indicate that it is a relabelled promise fasttrak tx2. I used to have Fedora Core 4, and the card worked perfectly with it. But I am switching to Debian, and I can't find the two Ultra/ATA drives I have on it. under Fedora, they were /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc, where the one Serial ATA drive I had on it was /dev/sda. The Serial drive is still /dev/sda, but I can't find the Ultra/Ata drives. I don't really know what sort of problem this is, so you'll have to tell me what information I need to give. How do I use the other two drives?
the ATA drives should be /dev/hde /dev/hdf /dev/hdg /dev/hdh, assuming you have two IDE channels on your motherboard. If you could post the output of "lspci" that would help to find the exact kernel module you need.
could be that FC includes the propriatary driver where debian avoids all propriatary drivers. (which is one reason I use ubuntu, it's like debian without all the politics)
I found that site, and I didn't find it, or the promise website very helpful. tho only working link from that site has no instructions for a 2.6 kernel, which I have.
if that doens't work, compile promise's "fakeraid" driver called ft and modprobe it.
which ever ends up working, add the driver name to /etc/modules so it loads at boot.
if you want to boot off it, you'll probably need to make your own initrd (you'll need to find a howto for this though as I don't know for sure how) or compile a full custom kernel.
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