sargosis, that's not completely true: C2D is capable of doing 64bits but unlike Itanium it also supports 32bit, Core 2 Duo is an "extended" Core Duo with EM64T + pni + SSE4
ideally the 32bit or 64bit versions should do equally fine on these systems ... btw: Ben Collins, keep up the good work! I've tried a ton of new kernels with this controller JMicron PATA (I have 2 ide-harddrives connected to it) on my Asus P5W DH so far the only working kernels for me were: 2.6.18-rc4-mm1 2.6.18-rc4-mm2 2.6.17-emission8 works for me, too http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3555200.html#3555200 => thank to this patch: http://distfiles.evolution-mission.org/sources/2.6.17/emission8/broken-out/031-jmicron-ide-2.6.17.patch the controller also works with 2.6.17 all kernels below them don't work for me the same applies for the newer kernels (don't "really" work): the kernels takes approx. 9 minutes to bring the controller / hdds up or just gives a message: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) failed to IDENTIFY (I/O) error, err_mask = 0x4) (2.6.18-rc6-mm1 / 2.6.18-rc6), this unfortunately also depends on Bios settings I both tried libata (only libata) and ide but both show the same behavior ... <== I hope this helps you a little & that you can find out the changes (& bad code ;-) ) which were made between those kernels to get a patched & working kernel if you have a system with that chipset you can try it out: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3548439.html#3548439 a livecd which is based on 2.6.18-rc4-mm1 -- JMicron PATA/SATA Controller does not work https://launchpad.net/bugs/57502 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
