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Re: Install troubles - Tyan K8WE



On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 01:43:45PM -0600, Gary Hodges wrote:
> I should have researched a bit more, but I figured since SATA has been 
> out for a while now, it would work without much trouble.

Well SATA harddisks have been out a while and work.  SATA optical drives
are new (the PX712SA was probably the first and was VERY hard to even
find outside Japan.)

> I'll know one of these days.  I thought I saw a comment saying it did 
> while googling yesterday, but maybe not...

Well it might, I never tried that.  I do know that I couldn't get the CD
to work on 2.6.11 debian kernel on a Dell laptop running in the @#$@#$
combined mode on an intel ICH controller and of course dell won't make a
bios you can switch to native mode since then they would have to answer
people's dumb questions about how to install XP without a floppy to load
the SATA driver. :(

> If that is the driver included with sarge, I can say that it doesn't 
> work with the chips on the K8WE board.  What do you think of my idea to 
> install with an older card and then upgrade to get the on-board stuff going?

Hmm, don't know then.  What does lspci show for network devices on it?

> I have a LSI21320RB controller with Fujitsu MAS and MAT drives hung on 
> it.  Any suggestions on boot parameters?

SCSI?  I imagine if it detects it, it will just do the right thing, and
it if doesn't you will have to give it a clue as to which driver to load
to run that controller (assuming linux support exists for it).

Len Sorensen



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