So, I scrounged up a pair of old 80G drives and bought a PCI IDE adapter (the only one available in the local store). I did this as all four internal IDE locations are already in use. The adapter installed just fine from the hardware point of view, I even configured a mirrored array with no errors that I could see.
The problem is that this seems to be more or less invisible to FC1. My expectation was that it would just show up as another IDE hard disk. Any thoughts as to how to get FC1 to recognize the hardware? The hardware explorer does not "see" the new adapter or drives either.
lspci does see the adapter as you can see from the output below.
I did Google and found a hit with a link to a Linux driver for the card but the link was bad. Initially I would just like to get it working but in an ideal world I would like to use this as the FC1 drive and free up the existing one for more data storage. If someone has this working with FC1 I'd appreciate any hints.
Thanks
Mike
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different version?) (rev c1)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1 (rev c1)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev c1)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev c1)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev c1)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev c1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0080 (rev a3)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0084 (rev a1)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0087 (rev a1)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0087 (rev a1)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0088 (rev a2)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 008a (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 008b (rev a3)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0085 (rev a3)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1)
01:06.0 RAID bus controller: Integrated Technology Express, Inc.: Unknown device 8212 (rev 13)
01:07.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)
01:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)