Re: Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard.

[Matthias Hentges <mailinglisten@hentges.net>]

Am Die, 2003-12-30 um 20.46 schrieb Ramasubramanian Ramesh:

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> 1) SATA is usable as host. Therefore Linux will see the disks attached to this     controller just
> like other IDE disks - but perhaps as scd0 and scd1.

SATA-disks in "enhanced" mode (SATA and full PATA enabled) are
recognized as normal SCSI disks (sda, sdb etc.). 

SATA disks in "compatible" mode (SATA and *one* PATA controller enabled)
are recognized as normal IDE disks (hda, hdb, etc.)

Compatible mode doesn't need a special driver to function, but you will
loose one PATA channel.
Enhanced mode will *hang* your box on boot w/o driver.

>  For   
>    this I need a driver for ICH5R (intel) driver for this SATA host adapter.
>    Is this included in stock kernel source (I mean source 2.4.18 or 2.6.xx)

A SATA driver is included since 2.4.20 IIRC. However, the most stable
SATA setup for me is kernel 2.4.22-bk36 with libata kernel patch
(get it here:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata)

SATA in kernel 2.6 works out-of-the-box for me on an Asus P4P800 m/b.

If you want to buy an AsusP4P have a look here for more info:
http://www.hentges.net/howtos/p4p800_deluxe.html

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HTH
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