[Oby]

I'm a complete newbie to Linux. I just downloaded Mandrake 9.1 and was going to install it on a spare HDD I have lying around. I download a disk image from and FTP and burned it to a disk and boots up just fine. As soon as I get past the language selection, mouse setup and license selection, it asks if I have a disk/scsi interface. I'm using a MSI KT3-Ultra ARU mobo with an integrated Promise PDC20276 RAID controller, but the drivers for the controller are not lsited and if I select no it says there are no disks suitable to create a file system on. The drives are recognized by both the controller and the BIOS. The HDD I am attempting to install the OS on is a 40 gig Western Digital WD-400. It's formatted in FAT32 right now because I grabbed it out of an old PC. Any ideas?

[snowdog]

You might want to look here... http://www.promise.com/product/oem_a...c20276_eng.htm

The bottom of the page says they support RedHat, so you should be in luck with Mandrake.

Good luck

[Oby]

When it asks for a disk.scsi interface, I'm assuming it means my IDE controller, but I don't know. My HDD's are on my 3rd IDE channel (didn't have an extra cable to set the 2nd HDD up as a master on IDE4) with the drive I want to install Linux on set up as the slave. Would I have to repartition the 2nd drive as NTFS so the installer can read it?