Re: [suse-amd64] via_sata & 9.1?

Arg getting very anoyed at constantly telling people this... READ THE F$#$N Digest!!! the MSI Master 2 far etc raid functionality is SOFTWARE ONLY. Thus the vt8xxxx chip is nothing more than an sata controller. The Drivers (normally windows) implement the raid in SOFTWARE.... To setup in linux... Make sure to disable any arrays (press tab and deselect any discs), this allows for parted etc to correctly identify the drives as hda/dhb(c) etc. If you want raid. Mark them as linux raid volumes then create the array. I actually get better speeds using the linux software raid driver than I do from the via supplied windows driver. End. On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 16:23, edward winston wrote:

I have a similar system (as you know) and i haven't had any problems with the via sata drivers. What is the problem he is having?

I am not dual booting or anything like that, and i am not using any of the raid capabilities. I installed directly onto my sata drive, creating several partitions and an LVM for the rest of the system directories.

The only thing i had to do, now that i think of it, was during installation, i had to make sure that the sata bus was looked at before the pata bus. This is a BIOS option. Prior to doing that, i could get through an install just fine, but the system would never boot because it couldn't find the drive it installed on. I think during installation the sata drives were seen as /dev/hda-d, but after installation the ide drives were listed first.

edward

On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 23:08:45 -0500 Jason Vertrees wrote:

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Howdy,

I'm trying to convert a Windows user to Linux. He has the same exact system I do (essentially) and he likes the newfound speed, but I can't get 2.6.6 w/SATA working right. I have 9.0 AMD64 running 2.6.6 (hand made kernel w/via_sata working wel!), and he has 9.1 running 2.6.5-52-smp, with via_sata & other modules broken.

So, what's the current status with SuSe 9.1 AMD64 for Dual Opterons on the MSI K8T800 Master2 FAR motherboard (via8237, I think).

Thanks,

-- Jason Vertrees BSCB Graduate Student @ UTMB, Galveston javertre@utmb.edu :: http://www.bscb.utmb.edu

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