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Originally posted by albertb
Hi Naps
Thanks <snip>
ATA IT8212 ATA RAID.
<snip>the Hard disk and the CD ROM both on the PCI Controller. For the two devices to function I need to configure the controller before anything.
On the on-board IDE controllers it work so fine without any problems. How does suse Identify this controller in the Drivers Modules.
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Hi AlbertB. Hope you haven't been waiting too long for a reply. I am interested to hear that you are installing Linux "out there" as I am convinced it is the way to go. I have South African connections (but was not schooled there, so I can understand a little French) and was also interested to see what a splash Ubuntu Linux is making. But SuSe is great at hardware recognition and has a great selection of packages.
Anyway, Googling for the IT8212 lead me to a French site (b.t.w. could you translate your signature line for us?)
http://forum.clubic.com/forum2.php3?...bcat=60&trash=
which noted that there was no info on the mfr's web site, but did give a link to this Gentoo site:-
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.p...it8212&start=0
If you are determined to use this controller, I suggest you will have to go through all those contortions. And I cannot help you because it is a bit beyond me. I notice that they are using the 2.4 series kernels and SuSe by default uses the 2.6 series, so you would probably have to make SuSe take a step back and install with the older 2.4x kernel. I don't think it's worth it.
BUT...
I see it is a raid controller. So don't put your CD ROM on it, but use one of the on board IDE controllers as you have done. ALSO I would guess that as this is included on Gigabyte Motherboards, it is one of those chipsets not supported by 2.6 kernels because they are not true hardware raid controllers and software raid support is built into the 2.6 series kernels (so you are supposed to build a Linux software raid array and you will get just as good performance. Of course you must have more than one hard drive as RAID means Redundant Array of ....)
One last observation... I have used such controllers from Highpoint and Promise in Windows (which does not offer raid support and so it is a best solution in Windows). Once I had used a hard drive with my Promise controller I could never boot Linux with that hard drive because of a message "kernel panic ...tried to kill init!" or similar. However SuSe was smart enough to pick up that the drives bios had been altered (I cannot find any way of returning it to the original state and the mfr's utilities no longer work on it) and that it was being "sold as a raid array" (SuSe's comment). It warned not to install Linux as it would destroy all the data and advised a software Raid array. But ignoring the message resulted in a successful install (but I still can't use new Knoppix because of the kernel panic).
So my advice is to use one of the other controllers and if you see the message from SuSE be aware that you cannot use the drive for other 2.6 kenel distros.
Good Luck
Naps