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Jim, My specs are almost identical, but I can't function withiut windows. I've been trying to empty my 8890 so I could try ghosting the raid drives. I don't know if it would work, but it would save lots of time on a windows/software...

Follow up woe. I tried to install Suse v9.1 and got an interesting message. A popup dialog box informing me that my D800P (Sager 8890 - which it correctly identified) contained a Promise "Software" raid controller. It went on...

I only ran it with the tradition IDE controller a couple weeks, and it drove me crazy not to use the RAID, because it would have faster transfer rates, and sustained reads and writes. So I overcame my fear of raid and flipped the...

mliu66, I noticed on your other threads that you have been having to reinstall XP multiple times. I have thought about blowing out my XP install and starting from scratch, but I've spent too much time installing software etc. Anyway, I...

I think the whole point of the Promise controller in a raid 0 array is to make the two disks act as one. Thus, during boot the controller accesses the disks in such a manner that grub or any bootloader for that matter is reading the...

You are right...."ACPI=off" I was going by memory. I guess since it still isn't seeing the drive proper...I first created a partion with Partion Magic out of the 2 60 gb drives. I left 10 gb at the end of the drive. I then...

Are you sure you had the right options typed in? Click on the no ACPI installation...that adds "no ACPI" to the options string at the bottom. Then type in a space and ide0=0x1f0,0x3f6,14 ide1=0x170,0x376,15 ide2=0 ide3=0 ide4=0...

I did dl the latest driver, but ran update a few too many times. It was successful until I added the kernal update, then I got the VFS can't find root kernal panic message again. I haven't had time to start from scratch again. Now..Suse...

migjam, I also found out that running the suse update screws up my raid array all over again. I get the VFS can not find root crap. So, no updates either.

Well, installed with no apci and is worked great - right up until I tried ATI's graphics driver....now it's borked again. Not too happy about no 3D support, and I think the first install may have gotten messed up during the graphics...