On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:37:02PM -0300, Fabiano Felix wrote:
Hello all,
I read the thread about "Installing directly to SATA drive on Asus SK8N ", but I don't understand if it functions or not... Well, I need to install a SLES8-AMD64 (Dual-processor Opteron 240) into a machine that have two Promisse controllers:
- Promise? PDC20378 SATA/SATA RAID accelerator - Promise sata 150 tx2 plus
None of them is recognized into installation, is there some procedure to correct this??? Can someone help me???
There is a "pdc-ultra" driver from Promise for this controller, but the source code is deeply 64bit unclean. It currently crashes quickly when using on a 64bit kernel. We did so far not have enough resources to fix this driver because it requires a lot of work. There is also another project called libata that writes a generic new SATA layer for Linux. They plan to support Promise drivers at some point. Waiting for this is probably the better plan. Summary is that you cannot Promise SATA under a 64bit kernel at the moment. -Andi