Disk ordering on A8V Deluxe?

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Hello.

Since the A8V has standard IDE, VIA SATA and Promise SATA drive
connections, I was wondering how to figure out what the order of the
disks would be if there were drives on all channels. For instance, what
would LILO see as the BIOS number of each disk, and how would that
interact with the chosen boot device in the BIOS?

I haven't gone down the path of dual-booting yet, but when I do I'd
like to be prepared. I'm guessing that support for the SATA chipsets
may not be ready for Linux yet, but still it seems worth learning about
it beforehand.

Thanks,

- Leo


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"Leomania" <Leomania.1g1aca@news.computerbanter.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hello.
>
> Since the A8V has standard IDE, VIA SATA and Promise SATA drive
> connections, I was wondering how to figure out what the order of the
> disks would be if there were drives on all channels. For instance, what
> would LILO see as the BIOS number of each disk, and how would that
> interact with the chosen boot device in the BIOS?
>
> I haven't gone down the path of dual-booting yet, but when I do I'd
> like to be prepared. I'm guessing that support for the SATA chipsets
> may not be ready for Linux yet, but still it seems worth learning about
> it beforehand.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Leo
>

I have the K8V with and an IDE and SATA on the Promise controller. You can
choose the boot order in BIOS which also specifies the order of the disks to
the o/s. I was booting from the Promise but that took too long (big pause
before booting) so I switched to boot from the IDE. The drive order changed
in all the o/s. This didn't make much difference to Linux as one was
/dev/hda (IDE) and the other /dev/sda (SATA). In Windows drive D0 became D1,
but again it didn't make a lot of difference because Windows NT assigns a
letter to the partitions.

It did make a difference with booting. In Windows I changed:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect

to:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect

I also had to fix grub when I changed the boot order.

root (hd0,1) became root (hd1,1)

I don't have anything on the VIA SATA so I don't know the order there and
I'm not sure you can switch the order of the VIA and Promise controllers.