[wplug] Highpoint Rocket 100 IDE ATA disk controller card

[Sam Al-Droubi]

Vance Kochenderfer <vkochend at nyx.net> wrote: Sam Al-Droubi  wrote:
> 
> I am not very savvy with Linux.  I would appreciate 
> any help in figuring out how to fish out the error and/or boot in text 
> mode.  On Ubuntu I only get the GUI status bar which freezes.  Anything
> in /var/log I should be looking for?

You can get more diagnostics by removing the "quiet" and "splash"
boot options as described in
.

The "dmesg" command is probably the place you want to look for log
info, though /var/log/syslog or /var/log/messages could also have
something useful.  If the system hangs early in the boot process,
it's possible the logs won't have anything relevant.

I'm not really a Ubuntu guy so these are generic suggestions.

Vance Kochenderfer        |  "Get me out of these ropes and into a
vkochend at nyx.net          |   good belt of Scotch"    -Nick Danger
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Just a follow up on what I ended up doing.  Originally I bought this card because my motherboard would not recognize all 500 GB each of my two hard drives.   The card would freeze when installing Suse 10.3 on driver called hpata_3x20 (I believe).  I tried my other PC and the motherboard disk controller recognized all disks with correct sizes.  So I decided to use this PC instead as my fileserver.

Thank you all for your help. 

P.S. HighPoint Tech support never contacted me back. So I don't recommend this card. 



Sincerely, 
Sam Al-Droubi, M.S.
saldroubi at yahoo.com
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