Re: Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard.

From: Matthias Hentges (mailinglisten_at_hentges.net)
Date: 12/31/03

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Date: 31 Dec 2003 21:43:56 +0100

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

    [...]

    > 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

    [...]

    HTH 

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