RE: SATA Controller support in linux distros

[Naoki Takebayashi <ffnt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I haven't played with S-ATA, but have you tried the methods described in

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html

?

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Naoki Takebayashi  <ffnt@uaf.edu>
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Mitchell Roth wrote:

> Ryan,
> Please go to linux0.cs.uaf.edu and join the email list and post future
> questions there.  I have copied the list on this message to see if anyone
> has any ideas.
> MGR
>
> >===== Original Message From "Edward L'Herault" <fserl@uaf.edu> =====
> >I'm pretty sure I already know the answer to this question - but I
> >thought I'd toss it out to the local LUG since I haven't gotten
> >anywhere on it for a while:
> >
> >I bough a new SFF case (Biostar iDeq 200V) with SATA raid integrated on
> >the MB (VIA Southbridge V8237), I only bought one SATA HD to use with
> >it, so I'm not worried about RAID but I can't find any linux distros
> >that support my chipset natively and I'm not sure how to go about
> >getting a driver disk.
> >
> >The Distros that I've tried are:
> >
> >Experimental Gentoo (11-29-2003)
> >Mandrake (10 cooker and 9.2)
> >Redhat 9
> >Fedora Core
> >
> >The gentoo and Mandrake 10 distros see my drive but fail to format it
> >due to extensive interupts that happen every few seconds.  All the
> >other distros that I tried didn't even see the disk.  I also tried both
> >of the available kernels in Mandrake 10 (2.6.2 and 2.4.25pre7).  If
> >anyone knows how to setup an external driver disk (VIA provides kernel
> >patches, but from what I understand I need a kernel module) or settings
> >that might help my situation please don't hesitate to send me a reply.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Ryan L'Herault
>
> Dr. Mitchell Roth
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