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Jeff Garzik wrote: > The ICH5 should be fine. You may need to twiddle BIOS setup options, > some users have reported that both drivers/ide and libata fail in > certain BIOS modes. "Enhanced - SATA only" is usually the preferred > mode, where feasible. I forgot to mention I will not be booting off of any of the SATA disks, so that should cover the BIOS issues by just ignoring them. > > You need to make sure you get the Promise SATA fixes I just pushed to > Linus. Presumably they will be available in the next 2.6.0-testX BK > snapshot on ftp.kernel.org, tonight or the next night. I saw that message; I won't have the hardware until late next week, so I'll watch to see what happens with the snapshot/-testX situation by then. I'll have about three weeks to use the machine for "whatever" before I have to start preparing it for its real purpose, so if there's any stress tests or anything I else I can run that would be useful let me know. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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