I have a similar model (K8NNXP) which also has the same raid chips on board. I have never tried the IT8212 chip, but under core 2 you can use the Sil3112 chip as a plain IDE controller. This means that you can't have raid with this chip for the 2 serial ata disks under linux. Under fedora core 1, the Sil3112 is not recognised at all, so if you want to access disks in it you must have a 2.6 kernel, which means at least core 2. I have contacted both Sil & gigabyte many times for raid support on the Sil3112 as a plain customer. Sil didn't answer at all, and gigabyte suggested to install windows (they even pointed a link to download the 64-bit beta version!!!). I think you can find raid functionality on the Sil3112 if you ran redhat 8/9, but not fedora releases (32/64 bit). Gigabyte does not seem to have good customer support (they don't even provide a utility of monitoring cpu temp & fun speed!). Lets hope that the hardware at least lives more than a year... George ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maurice K" <maurice@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Fedora list" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 2:20 PM Subject: Giga-byte GA-8KNXP mainboard > Has anyone experience with this mainboard's extra possibillities > (IDE3/IDE4 or SATA2-4) on Fedora Core 2? > > The chipset for IDE3+4 is an IT8212 and for SATA it's a Sil3112. > both can be used for raid 0, 1, 0+1, jbod and standard. > IDE1+2 and SATA1+2 is handles by the ICH5. > With the mainboard comes a cd with an adapted kernel for redhat 7.3 > (kernel 2.4) but I run the latest kernel which I got from up2date. > > In the near future I want to buy a new harddisk and IDE1+2 are full. > For IDE1 it's 160GB + 40GB and for IDE2 it's cd-rw + DVD+rw > > I'm fairly new to linux and want to know if these chips are recognised > by kernel 2.6 or that I have to use drivers for them (and where to get). > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
