change hard drive to IDE 3 using Promise 20276 controller

On Thursday 27 April 2006 23:24, Kooner stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes inalt.os.linux.mandrake...:

More precisely, if every IDE channel has a master and a slave, and if you plan on attaching the hard disk to the master of the third IDE channel, then it would be *-dev-hde,* yes. The slave of that channel would be *-dev-hdf.*

Yes, *-etc-fstab* will need to be modified as well. However, I recommend doing the modifications while booted up from a Live or Rescue CD, mounting your hard disk's root parbreastion on *-mnt* and thus changing *-mnt-etc-fstab* and *-mnt-etc-lilo.conf.*

In order to save the LILO changes to the master boot record of the hard disk, you will then have to issue...

lilo -Cmnt-etc-lilo.conf -bdev-hde

See...

man lilo

... for details.

Every piece of hardware requires a driver. However, chances are that the kernel will autodetect your controller and load the driver module for it.

That procedure is also for RedHat Linux 6.2, which uses a 2.2 kernel. A lot has changed in the meantime... ;-)

Modify the files you need to modify - see my explanation above - and all should go well... ;-)

I get the feeling that you are talking about "the driver" as being some separately supplied software module, or worse: a Windows-specific driver - most helpdesks are unaware of the fact that there are still

A driver is a driver, and it is or should be part of the kernel tree. Drivers should also match the kernel version.

I'm not an expert on IDE drivers, but I do believe that the driver module for the adapter you are referring to already is part of thevanillaLinux kernel tree.

And just once again...: the procedure you are referring to in that hyperlink you pasted is for RedHat 6.2, which is seriously outdated.

Does the output of...

dmesg

... reveal anything about the controller?

Probably because you haven't enabled DMA for that adapter. Check out...

man hdparm

If you're new to GNU-Linux, then perhaps I should mention that all commands I have mentioned in my reply - except for the commands that show you amanpage - require root access.

Good luck! ;-)

-- With kind regards,

*Aragorn* (Registered GNU-Linux user #223157)