I'm running FC1 (just installed) using all the fresh off the CD stuff (can't download anything else right now - I've already exceeded my bandwidth for the day

Anyway, I have a SCSI hdd, a SATA RAID array, and an IDE hdd. Before init occurs, the kernel detects the SATA drives, but not as a RAID entity. It then tries to read them and gives me a lovely screen of errors. As a result of SATA detection, my Primary Master PATA drive becomes /dev/hde.

Following this, init starts, and then Fedora dies - sitting there just before (I think) where the drives are remounted in read-write mode.

Anyway, I have no care for using my SATA RAID array in Linux, but can I pass a kernel parameter to stop the kernel picking it up? Even better is there a kernel version that doesn't have SATA capabilities compiled into it?

Furthermore, the kernel I got with FC1 doens't support reading NTFS - any suggestions there?

Cheers,
Unts.

What type of controller do the sata drives use. You may need to add options to lilo of the form:
ide0=xxxx,xxxx,xx ide1=xxxx,xxxx,xx ide2=0 ide3=0 etcetera.
You may have to do some googling to find out.

They use the good old Silicon Image controller (onboard my mobo.)

Also I'm using GRUB not LILO.

You might find this useful:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=239039

though I'm not sure if it quite covers it not working. I'm going to use it to stop my system spending an extra half hour looking for drives I dobn't have

Good luck