Joel, What driver did you use for the Promise controller? I have a Soltek K8TPro-939 MB with the PDC20579 chip and nothing seems to work... > > From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 2004/12/25 Sat PM 12:02:39 EST > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: SATA > > On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, Mark Weaver wrote: > > > Bob Chiodini wrote: > >> Mark Weaver wrote: > >> > >>> David Corrigan wrote: > >>> > >>>> I'm about to install Fedora Core 3 on an SATA harddrive, anyone have > >>>> any tips or advice before I start? I've heard about some peoples > >>>> problems and want to do my best to avoid them. > >>>> > >>>> David. > >>>> > >>> > >>> Hi David, > >>> > >>> My experience with FC3 and SATA drives is it really depends on the > >>> controller and whether or not the CD drive is IDE or not. I recently had > >>> the unpleasant experience of attempting to install FC3 on an HP Proliant > >>> and no matter how hard we tried and no matter what we tried it wouldn't go > >>> on correctly. We'd get the system to install ok, but it wouldn't boot. > >>> kept on dying in the first stages of the boot with kernel panic because it > >>> couldn't see the partitions where the OS was located. > >>> > >>> the problem came down to a catch 22 because of the particular kernel > >>> driver that "had" to be present in order to be able to install and run FC > >>> with the controller that was in the machine. Had we been trying to install > >>> RH Enterprise Linux that would have been a different story. > >>> > >>> What we finally ended up doing was installing Mandrake 10.0 on this > >>> machien and its running fine. My advice to you is to research fully your > >>> hardware compatibility before embarking. > >>> > >> Just installed FC3 on a MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum Socket 939 with a 120GB SATA > >> drive. No problems that I've noticed. Uses the nv_sata driver. It just > >> worked as they say. > >> > >> Bob... > >> > > > > I've heard from some using the VIA chipset that they were able to install and > > run with no problem, however the workstation with a VIA chipset I had tried > > to install on wouldn't take the install. > > works for me on a k8t neo fisr2 which is a via k8t800 with a VT8237 south > bridge, I have some disks on the promise 20378 which also works. > > also I've done several installs on servers with intel H6300ESB sata > controlers and they've all been fine. > > > Clearly others' milage varies a lot > > compared to mine. but its all good information. I like the VIA chipset, but I > > like the OS and hardware to work better, so the more responses we get to this > > thread the better. That way we'll know which chipsets and SATA setups readily > > accept the FC3 installation. > > > > > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
