Hey

How well supported is intels ICH6 sata chipset in linux?

Am I right in thinking that ICH5 chipsets are now well supported?

Thanks
Hamish

Depends on the distribution...ICH5 works in most distributions released in the last year.

ICH6 should work fine as well...again, it depends on what you are installing. I know Red Hat Enteprise Linux 3 doesn't have support for ICH6 unless you install Update 3 of the operating system

Hey

I was going to use Gentoo - which is a released every quarter. Threfore, i guess it *should* be compatible with new versions.

Hamish

My guess would be that the latest Gentoo release shouldn't have any problem detecting the ICH-6 SATA drive.

After wandering around for two days I realized that SATA drives are supported
by the latest kernel builds (2.6.9) and manage to make my Dell Dimension XPS
Gen 3 work with linux (Fedora 3, gentoo, having problems with Suse network install and the on-board card (not solved yet) and tomorrow trying Mandrake 10.1 for completeness sake ).

The trick part is with the BIOS for the Intel chip-set 925X you need to disable the default installation from Dell (RAID) make the drives plain SATA and change the SATA options on the BIOS to Autodetec RAID / ATA, once you have your SATA drives out of the ugly software RAID of the BIOS they will be recognized and installed in /dev/sd(a,b,c...) as normal SATAs and you can try your favorite distro.

I'll post a full report on the forum later with thanks to all that helped.

hey, if you could post a report that would be brilliant. I'm just about to install one and I could do with some help.

Cheers
Hamish

I apologize if this question is dumb, I've never posted to one of these boards before.

I recently purchase a new mobo from shuttle, the SB81p. It has the Intel ICH6 SATA controller on it and I have had a HORRIBLE time trying to get linux installed. I have finally gotten things almost finished, but have this annoying problem with my HD access light now. It stays on all the time. I know it isn't accessing the drive all the time, but the light is on. Is this a known bug in the drivers? I have looked for a mention of this problem but have found nothing.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Installing SuSe 9.2 and kernel 2.6.11 went OK for SATA / ICH6R on a Dell Dimension 8400
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...39#post1515239

It appears that the new kernel supports ICH6R well.