On 1/23/06, Darren Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm currently looking to build a cost effective web/email server. > > I'm considering using an ASUS A8N-E with an x939 Athlon 64 x2 3800+ 2Ghz > processor. I'm also hoping to use RAID-1 over dual SATA2 drives. In > researching gentoo and SATA2, I've come across numerous problems that > people are experiencing with the 2005.1-r1live-cd install and the > sata_nv driver and SATA in general. Has this been fixed? Does anyone > have any advice for me? Has anyone successfully installed on SATA2 > drives running with an nforce4 chipset mobo? If they haven't, were they > able to get SATA2 drives running as SATA1? Or at least SATA1 from a > fresh install of the 2005.1-r1 AMD64 livecd? I noticed a lot of problems > with the ASUS A8N-VM/CSM which is why I'm investigatin the A8NE. > > If this has already been discussed, I apologize in advance... I'm new to > the list and couldn't find what I was looking for in the archives. > > Any help or advice would be appreciated. > -- > gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list > >
hello, I installed gentoo from another livecd and then compiled the kernel and the initrd image to support sata_nv. It boots fine for me. Forget about using the nvraid, is not hardware, so if you need it, go sw raid or buy a decent RAID card. cheers -- Jordi Molina Casas (warp3r) mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: www.warp3r.com If you're still sending mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], please update your address book, my current email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list