In message <1054968933.2154.2.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jurgen Kramer writes: >My board both has a Promise and a Intel SATA controller. I have not >tried the Promise yet. From the Intel SATA controller only the standard >PATA channels are working with the RH9 installer. Your board has the Promise 20378 chipset. Mine (an A7V8X) has the 20376. Neither are supported, but barebones support should be possible. A quick Google search for 20376 and Alan Cox turned up this informative URL: http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt20030309_208.html#13 I have no idea about the Intel SATA controller, but I have a Silicon Image 3112 SATA controller and it works fine. (Slowly, because for testing purposes I'm using a parallel to serial adapter. No, it's not my primary or boot drive despite the odd fact that it is mapped to /dev/hda.) # /sbin/hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq = 0 (off) using_dma = 0 (off) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 8 (on) geometry = 119108/16/63, sectors = 120060864, start = 0 I tried turning on DMA with 2.4.20-13.9 and I experienced a lock up so I'm content to leave things the [slow] way they are. John -- John GOTTS <jgotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://linuxsavvy.com/staff/jgotts
