On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 12:53:59PM -0800, toman wrote:
I may have hosed myself. I bought an AOpen AK77-600 Max motherboard which has a Promise PDC20378 SATA controller and a Via 8237 SATA controller, and I bought a Western Digital SATA drive to go with it. The BIOS recognizes the drive fine, but neither my Debian 3.0r1 or Mandrake 9.2 disks see it. Ideas? I saw indications on the Linux-RAID list that there might be drivers for the Promise controller, but I couldn't quit figure out which kernel they were talking about.
I'm sorry, but bhahahahahaha!
You expect DEBIAN to work with hardware so new? Yeah, sure. Debian
doesn't add new hardware support in security revisions, you'll have to
wait for a new release version or somehow get a less stable Debian
installed.
Yeah, OK, I pretty much knew that debian was never current
(look at their install) but I find hardware trends so uninteresting
that I never keep up with them. I chose this board by looking for a
price point with firewire and no awful reviews. I didn't know what
support SATA had, couldn't find anything definitive on the web and
in LJ's Dec 2003 monster machine article it was treated as
a non-issue, though with hindsight that was just for Suse and just for the
controller they were using. I shot myself in the foot, but it'll grow back once
the distributions mature.
So like I said, I don't like hardware. I put an older 20Gig
WD drive on it just to get something going and started a debian install,
which went, sorta. The board has an Athlon 2600XP on it and a
a Gig of DDR333 and it seems to be decidedly less responsive
than my trusty old Athlon 1Ghz machine that I bought a couple years ago.
???? Is there some special incantation that needs to be performed in the
BIOS that I neglected? I left things at the default values figuring that it
would perform adequately; apparently not. Ideas?
J. Toman
Mandrake I can't abuse for this because I have no idea how they behave, but I will point out that Debian doesn't even support ATA133 devices in stable, even though I reported that they didn't work and offered a URL to a fix a full month before woody was released. That was some two years ago.
If you want a Debian that works with current hardware, try Knoppix. The
CD has some issues with the creators being obviously colorblind, but
beyond that it's really quite nice.
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