On Monday 15 September 2003 11:16 am, Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote:
> > On Monday 15 September 2003 07:17, Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote:
> > > > what about high point they clearly state that they support linux
> >
> > mandrake
> >
> > > > right on their literature. well and redhat and suse.
> > >
> > > acording Alan Cox hpt SATA should be suported by the standard PATA
> >
> > driver
> >
> > > hpt them selves have a "open source " driver, if the raid code is
> >
> > ommited
> >
> > > it might be merged
> > > in the kernel.
> > > but i never heard of success or failed stories
> > >
> > > svetljo
> >
> > thanks this would a very interesting thing to know. I have not got a
> > controller yet but have been looking at them. The adaptec and high points
> > looked like what I wanted to go with.
> >
> > I have many boards with the promise controller and they are junk. The si
> > ones
> > have been known to have issues with hard drive corruption and other
> > things.
>
> from what i read at lkml,
> ICH5 shoud work without problems with the libata driver & hard disks only
> VIA was also added recently in libata
>
> but libata is missing in the cooker kernels
> in cooker the only SATA addition (against vanila kernel) is the promise OSS
> driver
>
> so it might be a good idea to wait a bit more before getting SATA hardware
>
> svetljo
The asus mobo has a promise controller if i'm not mistaken so i'll just wait
for now and get a normal 120 GB HD.
There's always 9.3
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