On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 22:02 -0600, Joe Sanders wrote: > I have a sager9860 laptop which indicates it uses a Promise TX2plus > controller...I was hoping that the FC4T1 would be able to "see" the > PATA disk I have installed (gentoo and yoper-2.2 can) however, it > fails (just like FC3 does) when it comes to the point of partitioning > the disks as it fails to detect any...it loads the sata_promise kernel > module, however, in the gentoo & yoper installation kernels an updated > libata patch is applied to the mainline 2.6.10 kernel which adds the > ability for the kernel to work with this controller (the kernel option > is: CONFIG_SCSI_PATA_PDC2027X). If thats an option that should be enabled, and you can justify it, a Bugzilla ticket for it might be useful To rebuild anaconda however, http://rau.homedns.org/twiki/bin/view/Anaconda/AnacondaDocumentationProject has got a good guide -- Colin Charles, byte@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.bytebot.net/ "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi