Fabiano Felix writes:

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.

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.

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 -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, 90429 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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

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