I am running and have been running for 4 months, the exact configuration you describe except I have only one drive (SATA 2 250G) and therefore no RAID but have not had a problem. I intend to add a second drive as finances permit and will attempt to set up RAID at that point.
Pete
On 1/24/06, Stefan Trenker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hai Darren,
I am running an x939 Athlon 64X2 3800+ with an ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe Board,
newest BIOS flashed (1016).
I am running a dual boot WinXP + Gentoo on am RAID 1 (so I need the BIOS RAID)
My findings are as follows:
- 1. the HD's (2x250GB Samsung SATA-II) were plugged into the nVidia SATA
controller (big mistake)
-> there is a typo on the boot menu of the 2005.1-r1 LiveCD: in order to get
the BIOS RAID on-line i have to utilize the dmraid tool. The LiveCD therefore
recomments the boot string "gentoo dmraid" which does nothing since the
correct boot string would be
"gentoo dodmraid"
-> during the stage 1 bootstrap i had several kernel Oops. It stopped when I
used the boot string
"gentoo dodmraid maxcpus=1"
Since i liked to utilize both CPU kernels on the final system I unscrewed the
box, replugged my disks to the 2nd (now SATA-II, Sil 3114) controler,
reformatted the disks and newly formatted, partitioned, and installed windows
XP
(1. partition 500MB for Boot (i need it because the BIOS can not access
partitions 20 Gig behind the beginning), 2. partition 20Gig XP, 3rd Partiton
10Gig VFAT, 4th partition 3Gig swap, 5th partition rest for Gentoo)
-> LiveCD still utilices the sata_nv driver since the very first install of
the HD's brought a nVidia signature to the HD's which are recognized by the
dmraid tool, and which are not overwritten by the reformat utilizing the Sil
3114 controller (really weird).
For the Istallation I still had to utilize "maxcpus=1".
My System now runs fine with both CPU kernels but I still have a system freeze
once a week allways after heavy disk utilization.
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And I still have an issue with the nVidia GigEthernet interface. The Marvel
works fine.
Hope this helps a bit.
Cheers,
Stefan
Am Montag, 23. Januar 2006 22:30 schrieb Darren Grant:
> 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.
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