On Friday 24 August 2001 9:18 pm, babu walad wrote:
Hi Martin,
I am using an Iwill KA266-R motherboard. It has the AMI IDE Raid controller on the motherboard. As a test I was able to load and configure the RAID with win2k (for now) and it works great (the RAID stuff). This is an AMD Athlon board with DDR memory.
The beta drivers are precompiled and distributed as two images: boot.img and post.img files. The docs with the drivers say to start Redhad install with the boot.img in the floppy drive and Linux on the CD-rom drive. Once one hits the select language dialog, one is to hit some combination of CNTL and Fx keys to get to a dialog where one specifies the RAID disk which appears as a SCSI device. After going through the rest of the install, the post.img in loaded/executed to complete the setup.
I can find and post the entire instructions if it makes sense to do so. They are not too long.
Well, I do want to get the RAID up and running if at all possible.
Right now, I have not installed Suse Linux on my PC yet.
It seems that the only kernel patches for your board (particularly the AMI 80649 chipset) are available pre-compiled from Iwill. As you have already stated, these support RedHat 6.1/6.2 and kernel 2.2.16. If you want RAID and Linux you will have to opt for RedHat. Alternatively, install SuSE without using the onboard RAID controller and wait and see if the hardware is eventually supported. You could also e-mail Iwill and tell them what you think about closed source patches! M