On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 05:49:12PM +1100, Mark Saunders wrote: > I have an ASUS A7V8X motherboard with an onboard Promise PDC20376 > controller.
So it is the same board I have. Take a look at the kernel-traffic list: RAID is archived at: <http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/topics/Disk_Arrays-_RAID.html> The two specific threads mentioning the 20376 are at: 31 Dec 2002: <http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt20030106_199.html#9> and 27 Feb 2003: <http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt20030309_208.html#13> the latter has a link to: 12 Feb 2003: <http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt20030223_206.html#6> which contains Andre Hedrick's comments on trying to get the documentation from Promise. Andre is one of the principal authors of the IDE subsystem in Linux. To wit: 'I count the number of fingers I have before and after I shake hands with the folks in their camp. If I get an extra, I feel sorry for the poor bastard who was there before me.' In other words, don't hold your breath on getting support in the forseeable future. Promise does supply a closed-source driver for the 20375 chipset, if you can shoehorn it into your kernel and get it past the detection stage to make it think it wants a 20376 instead of a 20375. I have no experience with this. ---------------------------+--------------------------------------------------- Bryan Feir VA3GBF|"This Santa Claus business is played out. It's a Home:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | sneaking, underhand method, and the sooner it's | exposed the better." -- Stephen Leacock ---------------------------+--------------------------------------------------- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
