Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > 1. SATA Controllers - I see a bunch listed in menuconfig but what have > you found to work? Is Promise any good? What are some good brands
Personally I could not install gentoo 2005.1-r1 on ASUS A8N-VM mobo (southbridge nVidia 410 MCP, + northbridge GF6100 graphics). Loading sata_nv always freezes system. Probably too old kernel... I also tried "experimental" install-amd64-universal-2005-12-11.iso (as advised in gentoo-forum). This time booting was without problems, both network as well as sata-drives were recognised. I could even partition both sata-drives, and create /dev/md's arrays... Problems came later, when formating (mke2fs -j /dev/md*): I got random sync-errors causing kernel-panic. I repeated it a few times, always sync-error, but on random places of disk (sometimes while formating 1st partition, sometimes while formating 4th partition). I could never get past formating all 8 partitions, so I gave it up... > 2. Sata drives - what have you found to be reliable and work well. > I've crossed Hitachi off my list because of my experience with the > Ultrastores. In my story, I have tried it with 2x Seagate 7200.9, but I still think problem is mobo/chipset. I tested drives with Seagates' sea-tools utility, full test took ~4 hours (2x 160GB). No errors found. Moreover, I could install WinXP on this computer without any problem. Sad, but I've heard NVidia is not so open to kernel-dev to give them enough details about its new chipsets... That's my experience with gentoo & sata drives/controler. I'l try to get some VIA-based mobo (K8T890) to see if it works better... Jarry -- Lust, ein paar Euro nebenbei zu verdienen? Ohne Kosten, ohne Risiko! Satte Provisionen für GMX Partner: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/partner -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
