Re: Asus K7V motherboard and Promise RAID bios patch on Linux?

2005-05-15 Thread Lee Braiden
On Sunday 15 May 2005 15:57, Bob Freemer wrote: > The "RAID" chip on most motherboards, including the K7V, is really done > by a software driver. You can do software RAID in linux from any IDE > channels, making the "RAID" chip uselesss. However, some of the RAID > motherboards have extra IDE cha

Re: Asus K7V motherboard and Promise RAID bios patch on Linux?

2005-05-15 Thread Bob Freemer
Lee Braiden wrote: I'm thinking of patching my Asus K7V motherboard (which has a promise ATA-100 controller onboard) with a modified Promise BIOS that allows it to become a RAID controller. This can also be done by grounding one of the chip's pins, whereupon the BIOS will recognise the controll

Re: Asus K7V motherboard

2000-04-14 Thread Jeff Noxon
If it didn't work, you'd be seeing posts about it. It's very unusual for an off-the-shelf motherboard to have problems with Linux these days. I'm about to buy a K7V myself. Linux works just fine on my K7M. Regards, Jeff On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 11:01:29AM +0200, Alfredo Amiel P. Leonardia wrot