P4C800 Motherboard

[Andrew G. Hammond]

2.6 series definately has support for SATA chipsets. It's under the SCSI 
subsection.

And I strongly recommend against Promise Raid cards. If you must have 
hardware raid, get a 3ware. Not only are they supported on linux 
explicitly by 3ware, they are actually pretty decent performers.

I went with the Intel P4C board. It gets delivered tomorrow. Will report 
to the thread how it does with drivers etc.

Drew


Lennart Sorensen wrote:

>On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:12:47AM -0400, Kerry Panchoo wrote:
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>>Has anyone managed to get the Asus P4C800 Deluxe board fully working-- 
>>i've tried the stuff suggested on the online forums- with very little or 
>> no positive results.
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>>I'm running red hat 9.0 with the 2.4.20-20.9smp Kernel
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>>I've got 2 identical SATA 120GB hard disks connected up to the raid and 
>>one 120GB IDE drive on ide0
>>
>>the Promise raid - FastTrak 378 doesnt work-- cant get it to run- i set 
>>the bios to compatible mode and tried to install-- didnt work.. any 
>>suggestions?
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>I would personally use Linux software raid over Promise software raid.
>At least with the linux one you can move the raid to another machine in
>the future without loosing access to the data.  I also suspect the Linux
>software raid is slightly more cpu efficient.
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>>the 3COM gigabit lan drivers are useless-- i got it to work-- but you 
>>cant go to google etc-- pretty bizzare
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>You can ping other machines on the network?
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>Have you tried using a 2.4.22 kernel, which has many driver updates.  I
>think serial ATA support is a very recent addition to the 2.4 kernels,
>and only for a few chipsets.
>
>CHeck the lspci or /proc/pci listing for the SATA controller, and post
>it and someone can look up which kernel if any supports that controller.
>
>Lennart Sorensen
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