Hi,
After playing with it for a while, I decided to turn to the list for some clues. I have on my hands a workstation, based on a Intel Desktop board D875PBZ (875P chipset), with a Pentium4 2.4C processor. This workstation has 3 disks, one being a ATA100 drive (system disk), and two SATA drives (data). I installed RedHat 9 on it, knowing that the default RH9 kernel (2.4.20-8) wont work well with HT, nor will it recognize SATA. But that is why I bought it with an ATA drive for system. Anyway, after that, I went to upgrade the kernel to 2.4.20-20.9 (latest RH kernel). I know that the HT support is suckie for now, so I disabled HT in the BIOS (although all you'll see below was also tried with HT enabled, and with both SMP/non-SMP enabled kernels). Now, I have the following options installed: 2.4.22-ac3 / 2.4.22-ac3-smp (self compiled) 2.4.20-20.9 / 2.4.20-20.9smp (RedHat kernel) 2.4.20-20.9custom / 2.4.20-20.9custom-smp (RedHat kernel self compiled) With 2.4.22-ac3, without (or with) HT, the system just reboots immediately after "booting kernel blah", and the interrupt mapping stage (forgot the name, it has a specific name, that stage). With 2.4.20-20.9, when HT is disabled, the system boots up until it tries attaching ide-driver to the hde device (the first out of two SATA disks), at which time it freezes. When HT enabled, it just reboots, same as 2.4.22-ac3. With 2.4.20-20.9custom is more or less the same as the RedHat released kernel. In any case, I can do without HT for now. However, I cannot do without the SATA disks. I did manage to make this work on a 865PERL based motherboard 1.5 months ago, with 2.4.21-ac1 or something. I assume no one broke the IDE kernel driver since, but I am not sure. Does any of you have experience with this motherboard, and made it work properly with/without HT but WITH SATA working ? --Ariel -- Ariel Biener e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP(6.5.8) public key http://www.tau.ac.il/~ariel/pgp.html ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
