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Hi Kevin,
> Hi,
> Here's what I spent my weekend doing at home:
> I'm trying to install SL 4.1 (or 4.2 rc2?3, same results) on a
> system that is already running Fedora Core 1.
>
> The system has 4 60GB IDE HD's set up as a couple raid 1 arrays for
> /usr and /var and a big raid 5 array.
>
> When I run the installer I get errors about DMA timeouts and when it
> eventually times out and gets to the partitioning screen, its
> missing 1 of the drives, and even weirder, the raid1 devices that
> were on both that drive and another drive it does see are missing as
> well.
>
> I though the problem might be the VIA chipset built in the
> motherboard, so I switched to a couple ide PCI cards I had lying
> around. The drives are currently running off:
>
> IDE interface: CMD Technology Inc PCI0649 (rev 02)
> Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20267 (rev
> 02)
>
> although swapping controllers made no difference in symptoms.
>
> I thought the problem might be following one of the drives, which it
> seemed to when swapping things around, however when i tried
> installing with the suspect drive removed, which shouldn't matter in
> this setup, I got the same symptoms.
>
> I tried running the installer with an ide=nodma option, and that
> resulted in a kernel panic where it usually gets the dma errors.
>
> Does this sound familiar to anyone?
Have you tried swapping IDE cables with new (known to work) ones?
Michael.
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