I have a Athlon 1.33ghz, kt7a-raid motherboard, 2 x 30gb ata 100 drives, 512mb ram, geforce 2 mx400 graphics card running win 2000 and i really want to run BEos. I have tried to install it 4 times, but i always get the same error. It gets to the fifth icon (think its the drives icon and then it goes into kernel dump and gives numerous error's. Most illegible and are just memory adresses, but sometimes things like "cannot find /dev/..." also appear. Im trying to install personal edition and have no idea if im doing something wrong or if i just cant run it on my system. Could anyone give me any idea's? ive already tried disabling dma but that didnt help either. The only thing i could think about being wrong is the 2 hdd's reside on the 2 raid channels of my computer (but arent currently raided). Thanx for any help

Currently BeOS doesn't support ATA/100, though it does support ATA/66 (for onboard VIA or Promise controllers) You can either hook up the HD with BEOS on it to an ATA/66 controller or use an old IDE cable which will force the controller into ATA/33 mode. Sorry there is no better solution at the moment. Richard

Thank you for that Richard, Its most useful, and greatly appreciated that you took the time to respond. I will organise to get myself another HDD today that is ATA33. Just one thing, seeing that BEos cannot find any file system at all it is most likely that the problem is an unreadable drive isnt it? In this case im happyu to get another drive to try it on. Im just concerned that i will go buy a new drive and it still wont work.

The onboard RAID might be causing problems. BeOS can use HDs that are greater than ATA33 (mine HD is ATA100, but the motherboard is ATA33), it's just that the HD must be forced to operate at ATA33.

Hi, I use an Abit VP6 Dual-CPU motherboard with a RAID controler, I can work with BeOS, the HD on the RAID is not visible but there is no error during loading... I never forced my HD to ATA33 and it works too ! My config : ABIT VP6 - @ 2x 910MhZ 720 MB SDRAM 1x 40GB HD 2x 30GB HD GeForce 2 MX 400 Darx