<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.0.9"> </HEAD> <BODY> Ok, Without wishing to start a flame war, Promise controllers on Linux generally work well. (although I couldn't vouch for their RAID controllers) Two or three IDE Promise controllers works fine together, and with one disk per channel they make a fantastic (and VERY reliable) software RAID setup. I've run many systems this way over many years. (on both Linux and NT!) (I have an SX4000 in the next room with 800Gb on RAID 5 - very quick, very cheap, never had a problem with it) As far as the SATA (or SATAN as I now call it) is concerned, FC1 doesn't support it, however (as a matter of Interest) Mandrake 9.2 RC1 for amd64 does (!) and it installs and runs Ok. (which is more than you can say for the rest of the Mandrake distro ... don't!!) If you compile 2.6-test11 with SATA inline (it seems to be less happy as a module (!)) then this works fine on FC1. (the problem you have is getting to a point where you can compile it) Once I've finished messing around I'll see if I can produce a native boot.iso for the ASUS boards with working SATA and a 2.6 kernel ... HTH Gareth. On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 17:22, Mark Lane wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE>On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 10:05, Pete wrote: > Has anyone tried to get this running on an Asus K8V? I downloaded the x86-64 > tree from duke (thanks to those who did this, the effort is much > appreciated), which was easy enough, but unfortunately, I have two SATA > drives in ATA mode (no need for raid on my desktop), which the default kernel > doesn't see. I really think I have two options here, one is to wait for a > kernel to be created that has the Promise driver and is included as an > update, or to hack it a bit. Well I wouldn't use the Promise (Promise Controllers suck). The VIA SATA that is in the chipset is much better. Though you probably won't be able to installed to it. Best bet is to install on a IDE drive and then compile a 2.6 Kernel. It seems to have better support for the via chipset though the drivers now have been backported to 2.4.23.</PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <PRE><TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> -- Gareth Bult <<A HREF="mailto:Gareth@Bult.co.uk">Gareth@Bult.co.uk</A>> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </PRE> </BODY> </HTML>