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<BODY style="MARGIN-TOP: 2px; FONT: 10pt Tahoma; MARGIN-LEFT: 2px">I asked about
this in #tclug but no one there really knew, but I figured I would ask here as
well. The short of it is I attempted installing Gentoo Linux on a [non-Compaq]
PC with a Compaq Smart-2SL SCSI controller (4x18.2 GB in RAID0 array, created
prior to beginning installation in Windows using Compaq's utility). I did
modprobe sr_mod, sd_mod, cpqarray. After doing this, there are no /dev/sd*
devices listed, but I get /dev/ida/c0d0 and /dev/rd/0. When I fdisk
/dev/ida/c0d0, it gives me "you will not be able to write the partition table",
then "Unable to read /dev/ida/c0d0" and exits. fdisk /dev/rd/* (contains
rd0-rd15 and initrd) lets me into fdisk, tells me sector size is 1024, not 512
(I think it's actually 128, maybe 512 though) and shows the geometry as 1 head,
22000 sectors, 1 cylinder, so if I create one partition, it ends up being the
full amount, since there is only one cylinder. If this doesn't work, I'm just
scrapping it and I'll throw the RAID stuff in a windows box, but I'd like to
utilize it here if I can. So if anyone can help, I'd appreciate it.
<DIV>-John</DIV></BODY></HTML>