Re: ASUS A8V Deluxe, SATA disk on the Promise port?

[Anders Peter Fugmann <afu@fugmann.net>]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> The second sata is a promise 20378.  I highly doubt it will work with the
> sil driver.  
Me neither. Any driver not made to drive the promise controller would 
not work I guess.

I have not found a free driver yet (the ft3xx driver is
> supposed to work but appears to be binary only).
How about the promise sata driver? I have been using this for a while 
now with no problems at all for a A8V Deluxe motherboard.

> Of course if you can find an add in pci sil3112a card that would work.
> Seems to be one of the best supported chipsets so far.
No need to. A standard kernel compiled with SCSI_SATA_PROMISE=[y|m] 
should do the trick.

> Len Sorensen
Regards
Anders Fugmann