Re: Dell XPS gen 3 trouble

2004-12-15 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 11:01:51 +0100 Søren Boll Overgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 03:55:20PM -0600, Jacob S wrote: > > > > The machine comes stock with a raid controller. I had to disable the > raid functionality for d-i to actually see any drives. Doing so > r

Re: Dell XPS gen 3 trouble

2004-12-15 Thread Søren Boll Overgaard
Hi, On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 03:55:20PM -0600, Jacob S wrote: > > > > 1) The Dell XPS comes with two 160 GB sata drives, which are only > > usable from Linux when configured for pata access[1]. I have been > > unable to enable DMA[2] on the disks, which is obviously detrimental > > to performance.

Re: Dell XPS gen 3 trouble

2004-12-14 Thread Jacob S
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 21:54:24 +0100 Søren Boll Overgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > After struggling with the onboard sata controller, on my brand new > Dell XPS gen 3 at work, I finally got Debian booted and installed, > using debian-installer rc2. Unfortunately, a few kinks remain to b