no harddrives on a Gigabyte nForce2 motherboard

Andrei my_x at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 2 11:20:26 UTC 2004


Hi,

Related to ITE 8212, did you managed to build the driver disk to insert
it
at the install point? Or you just have inserted the module after
install ?

I need a driver disk for the ITE 8212 because I want only to use the
RAID
array (btw, I have a GA mainboard with 875 nothbridge)

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick [mailto:pabos at glypsube.org] 
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 8:34 AM
To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
Subject: no harddrives on a Gigabyte nForce2 motherboard

I've just tried test 2 and unfortunately it does not recognize either
of
the hard drive controllers on my motherboard. I have a Gigabyte K7
Triton motherboard (nForce2).

Here is the information for the controllors:

I can't easily recognize the nVidia controller in the PCI listings but
it uses the amd74xx driver under FC1 and describes itself as "nVidia
Corporation nForce2 IDE" southbridge using driver version 2.10.

The second (RAID) controller is:
Bus  1, device  12, function  0:
	RAID bus controller: PCI device 1283:8212
	(Integrated Technology Express, Inc.) (rev
16).mailto:fedora-test-list at redhat.com
      IRQ 11.
      Master Capable.  No bursts.  Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=8.
      I/O at 0x9c10 [0x9c17].
      I/O at 0xa000 [0xa003].
      I/O at 0xa410 [0xa417].
      I/O at 0xa800 [0xa803].
      I/O at 0xac00 [0xac0f].
ITE 8212
http://www.ite.com.tw/productInfo/Download.html#IT8212F
http://www.ite.com.tw/productInfo/Download.html#IT8212%20ATA133%20Controller

The ITE controller was not recognized under FC1 but I found source for
it, compiled it and it worked. The nVidia controller was recognized by
FC1 and is the more important drive of the two. I am hoping to put FC2
under the ITE drive using a Just-a-Bunch-Of-Disks mode and had hoped
since the source was available and under the GPL that it might be
integrated into kernel by this point. I've been booting FC2 off of a
hard drive and don't have a floppy drive so I can't make a driver disk
for it.

Are there any plans to add either/both of these controllers to the
kernel by Test3 or FC2 final?

-- 
Patrick <pabos at glypsube.org>





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