[TriLUG] Linux on SATA?

Tue May 31 23:44:42 EDT 2005

General question:

Have you tried the latest drop of Knoppix on it?  If so, did it work? 
And if so, what drivers did load?

Shane "nested conditional" O.

On 5/30/05, Greg Kuhn <thetruthisoutthere at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I have the following board, MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum, nforce 3 ultra based. I use the sata_nv driver without problems in a non-raid configuration. My distribution of choice is Gentoo Linux. I haven't tried the software raid method, because I am building a new machine with a megaraid scsi raid card.
> 
> Greg
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Brigman <jbrigman at nc.rr.com>
> Sent: May 29, 2005 9:16 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Linux on SATA?
> 
> Chris, Jason;
> 
> Thanks for your rapid reply, I appreciate hearing about your
> experiences! Many folks in my quandry are doubting that the sata_nv
> driver (nVidia SATA driver) actually works, and it may be the case that
> it doesn't.
> 
> I've tried the SATA drives both in the RAID and non-RAID configuration,
> same results. I've seen some people who are using other SATA controllers
> solve the problem by putting the SATA drives in a RAID configuration,
> but that did not work for me. (And Jason, I agree 100% about using
> kernel-RAID rather than "fakeraid" is it's often referred to.)
> 
> Chris: What I mean by switching to PATA is that I can abandon the SATA
> drives and go back to some ATA133 drives because the motherboard has
> both ATA133 IDE interfaces (the usual two) and dual SATA headers that
> happen to be RAID-able. Have you gotten SATA drives to work with any
> distros?
> 
> It does not surprise me that you might have several systems running RHEL
> on SATA without problems: the diversity of SATA controller designs is,
> well, shocking. I thought the world would have learned from the terrible
> MegaIDE stuff back a few years ago in the ServerWorks chipset, but
> apparently chaos doesn't matter as long as there's a windows driver
> supplied by the mfr. :-(
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 17:04 -0700, Chris Bullock wrote:
> > Can you please clarify, that you are using SATA drives with the SATA
> > cables, you refer to switching back to PATA and everything is well, just
> > want to make sure you are not using PATA drives for a SATA RAID card.  We
> > have several systems running RHEL on SATA without any problems.  Sorry I
> > couldn't answer the question though.
> > Good luck,
> > Chris
> > --- James Brigman <jbrigman at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm having a problem getting Linux to install on a system with built-in
> > > SATA RAID. The mbd. is that low-cost "Chaintech 7NJL6". It's an nVidia
> > > nForce 2 board with the built-in MCPS controller system. The board has
> > >
> > > The particular problem is that sata_nv driver won't "see" the drives on
> > > the SATA interfaces, even though they are A-OK in the BIOS.
> > >
> > > bug, however, that's manifest in the kernels used by SuSE 9.2 and
> > > CentOS4. http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html
> > >
> > > There's been some progress on this bug, found in Kernel 2.6.8.x as
> > > http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3352
> > >
> > > The particular bug is with the ATA_FLAG_SATA_RESET: removing the
> > > variable from the header of the driver is reported to solve the problem.
> > >
> > > My questions to the group are:
> > >
> > > 1) Are there any magic incantations that could be typed at the
> > > bootloader prompt such that bugs in the sata_nv driver could be
> > > sidestepped? (SuSE 9.2/CentOS 4 x86) Or, similarly, anyone know anything
> > > about getting a fixed sata_nv driver, dropping it on a floppy, and
> > > booting with an amended driver?
> > >
> > > 2) Has anyone taste-tested SuSE 9.3 on SATA yet, an particularly, nVidia
> > > SATA? Can anyone out there report success with SuSE 9.3 on built-in SATA
> > > controller hardware?
> > >
> > > 3) Is anyone getting ANY distro to work with nVidia-based mbds with
> > > SATA? Or with the Chaintech 7NJL6 working under ANY distro? This board
> > > has been on sale at TigerDirect for some time, and costs $40 or less,
> > > after rebate. So I figure someone in the local area has, at least, seen
> > > this problem too.
> > >
> > > All experienced feedback welcome. Tangential comments not related to the
> > > solution to /dev/null, please.
> 
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