On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 15:36, Robin Laing wrote:
I did a quick search more to learn about AHCI and the intel site show that special drivers need to be unpacked before installing in unattended mode in Windows. It probably means that you would have to use a driver disk even in windows.
Have you read this. http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html
I have a SiS based MB and the SATA works like a dream but not as RAID. After reading I learned that I might as well use the Linux software RAID as it provided more tools.
Thanks for the link above. There was some good information there but I wonder how up to date some of it is?
I started last week searching out parts for a new system. Have been looking at the ASUS P5GD2 Deluxe primarily because it appears that it can support 8 SATA hard drives. I don't plan on using this in a raid configuration so that may make this easier.
I've been trying to confirm that FC3 will support non-raid SATA drivers using this motherboard which has an Intel ICH6R southbridge and a Silicon 3114R SATA controller chips. The info in the above link appeared to reference work done using 2.4 kernels.
Planning on using several Maxtor 300GB SATA drives on this system.
I have already been told that SATA support for DVD or CD rom devices is missing or not very good. So I will opt for an IDE DVD drive of some kind. Still have to research that item.
I am also trying to verify if the Marvell 88E8053 GbE chips are supported in FC3. Will be using that on a 100Mb LAN so I won't get full benefit.
I doubt that the built in wireless interface is supported, have not been
able to determine which chip set they are using for that yet.
Less of an issue is support for the 1394 ports, would be nice to have but not needed at this time.
Any pointers or recommendations would be appreciated.
I have a SiS based ASUS board (A7N8X) and I have two SATA drives running md under FC1. I have some issues but I don't know where they are or what they are related to. My machine will have the display just freeze and I can only do a hard boot. :( I am not going to get into a huff on this one unless it happens in FC 4 as well.
I have an IDE drive as SATA support was alot worse in 2003 when I installed FC1. I noticed that all kernel updates since my initial install have included support for SiS. The Lan and Sound are another story but NVIDIA has drivers on their site. About 2 minutes to install the drivers and all is well. Same with my Video card.
I haven't tried the IEEE interface yet. Nothing to try it with. I am going to borrow a video capture device and give it a try.
I am going to order a 3ware card as I do want faster RAID and at least RAID 5.
-- Robin Laing
