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
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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