From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FDgT5-0001cF-GO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:23:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1RBLSv4023970; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:21:28 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1RBFRP2008115 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:15:27 GMT Received: (qmail 11379 invoked by uid 0); 27 Feb 2006 11:15:27 -0000 Received: from 157.247.252.14 by www083.gmx.net with HTTP; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:15:27 +0100 (MET) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:15:27 +0100 (MET) From: jarry@gmx.net To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <200602270042.19134.brettholcomb@bellsouth.net> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Authenticated: #787166 Message-ID: <2504.1141038927@www083.gmx.net> X-Mailer: WWW-Mail 1.6 (Global Message Exchange) X-Flags: 0001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k1RBLSvK023970 X-Archives-Salt: 0b306223-7e89-4922-8336-e2644d266d37 X-Archives-Hash: 584ad3a7102ca0f7f61216454eb7ba10 Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > 1. SATA Controllers - I see a bunch listed in menuconfig but what have > you found to work? Is Promise any good? What are some good brands Personally I could not install gentoo 2005.1-r1 on ASUS A8N-VM mobo (southbridge nVidia 410 MCP, + northbridge GF6100 graphics). Loading sata_nv always freezes system. Probably too old kernel... I also tried "experimental" install-amd64-universal-2005-12-11.iso (as advised in gentoo-forum). This time booting was without problems, both network as well as sata-drives were recognised. I could even partition both sata-drives, and create /dev/md's arrays... Problems came later, when formating (mke2fs -j /dev/md*): I got random sync-errors causing kernel-panic. I repeated it a few times, always sync-error, but on random places of disk (sometimes while formating 1st partition, sometimes while formating 4th partition). I could never get past formating all 8 partitions, so I gave it up... > 2. Sata drives - what have you found to be reliable and work well. > I've crossed Hitachi off my list because of my experience with the > Ultrastores. In my story, I have tried it with 2x Seagate 7200.9, but I still think problem is mobo/chipset. I tested drives with Seagates' sea-tools utility, full test took ~4 hours (2x 160GB). No errors found. Moreover, I could install WinXP on this computer without any problem. Sad, but I've heard NVidia is not so open to kernel-dev to give them enough details about its new chipsets... That's my experience with gentoo & sata drives/controler. I'l try to get some VIA-based mobo (K8T890) to see if it works better... Jarry --=20 Lust, ein paar Euro nebenbei zu verdienen? Ohne Kosten, ohne Risiko! Satte Provisionen f=FCr GMX Partner: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/partner --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list