Thanks all (Andreas and Vojtech specially), Some other questions: - What's accurately the problem with this hardware? It's a SuSE problem, Linux generic or other problem? - Is there some manufacture module that can functions with Opteron? - Is there some way to emulate 32-bit to use this? (I believe that no, but...) - How I can certify which controllers (in this sort) will be compatible? (I apreciate some user's opinions about this) - Someone has some notice about this module's development? Regards, Fabiano Felix Em Ter, 2003-09-23 às 12:45, Andreas Jaeger escreveu:

Fabiano Felix <felix@getnet.com.br> writes:

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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...

The SATA controller is not supported, it will not work.

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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

Those do not work.

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None of them is recognized into installation, is there some procedure to correct this??? Can someone help me???

No way right now:-( Unfortunatly there's no working open source driver for these.

Andreas

Hi, You could however try to get that 3rd party driver for that 20378 chip but so far I have not been able to get that thing running with any kernel or any distribution whatsoever. Martin On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 02:38, Andi Kleen wrote:

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 03:34:07PM -0300, Fabiano Felix wrote:

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Thanks all (Andreas and Vojtech specially),

Some other questions: - What's accurately the problem with this hardware? It's a SuSE problem, Linux generic or other problem? - Is there some manufacture module that can functions with Opteron?

The problem is that the vendor driver is not 64bit clean code.

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- Is there some way to emulate 32-bit to use this? (I believe that no, but...)

No.

-Andi