Hello all.

I've posted similar threads on a number of boards, but nobody even answers, I I guess the answer is no, but......


I have a home built PC based on the MSI K7N2G-ILSR motherboard. 1Gb RAM, Athlon2400+ CPU.

I really want to run it as dual boot XP and Linux. I don't really know enough about the different flavours of Linux to have a preference, but I've burnt the Fedora discs so I'll probably use that.

Here's the catch. The board comes with on-board Promise 376 SATA\RAID. I've got 2xMaxtor DiamondMax 80Gb disks. I've got them running RAID-0 (striped). They are split up as 20Gb XP System disk, some other partitions in an NTFS extended partition and 20Gb 'unused'. I want to put the Linux distribution in the 'spare' 20Gb.

So I put in the disc and boot from CD and it starts loading. Then it tries to find the disks and can't find them.
The closest I've come to finding something useful is linuxquestions-org-questions-archive-18-2003-09-2-60248. I've looked in the promise web site and downloaded the drivers for the fastrak TX4000 chip. But they only support up to RedHat9. Supprise, supprise they won't work for Fedora, which is a different version of the kernel.

So, does anyone know where I could find drivers, or a distribution that will support this setup?


I've got a 'spare' 6Gb IDE disk, but it won't work alongside the SATA disks so that's not an option.

I'm pretty much a with this. I've run Mandrake and SUSE in the past on other machines and have a fair knowledge of Solaris.

Hi,

I tried installing Mandrake 9.2 on my board. I do not have dual drives yet. Only a single 120Gig, but Mandrake installed and is running.

I only have text mode running though as my Radeon 9600 XT card will not run..... not even in 2d.

gl

Are you using the Promise RAID with the SATA connector?
That's what I'm having trouble with.

I got drivers from Promise for Redhat9. But since that's been replaced by Fedora I'd rather have that on. Maybe I'll go for Mandrake if that's easier.

I can't get my modem to work now.
It's a fairly run of the mill USB ADSL modem, but since I can't get it to work I have to find a apge here with my XP build, print it out, re-boot in Linux, try it out, it doesn't work, reboot into XP, find a page, reboot linux, try it, reboot XP, ad-infinitum.

I'm using the Promise 376,

It works fine with Mandrake 9.2 (2.4.22 kernel), but I'm having poblems with SuSE.

In SuSE it innstalls when I use the Promise driver disk, but after reload it does'nt work anymore... Seems like the promise driver is not included in initrd??

I tried a SuSE 9.0 install on a standard IDE drive on the same machine and that works well.

Hey:
For Kernel 2.4.x check this http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=124770

Since you apparently had problems with the driver disc from Promise I recommend to start the system (after installation) from the installation CD/DVD and to reload the driver from disk first (F3-key). Then after language settings choose "boot installed system". Then when you are there just update your system and continue with the driver compilation for the NEW kernel and copy the files as given in the thread above and create a boot disc.

For Kernel 2.6.x check this: http://www.linuxforum.com/forums/ind...showtopic=7531
No personal experiences yet.

Good luck

It looks like the SATA in Mandrake is not very stable. My Mandrake 9.2 installation on the SATA drive on the Promise 376 controlle is now totally messed up.

I have noticed in other posts also that there have beein problems with the built in SATA support for the Promise controller.

So I'm putting in a standard ATA drive , installing SUSE and Mandrake on that and will try the latest Promise drivers from there.

It does not seem like a good option to use the Sata drive as a boot drive on 2.4.x

Mabye I'l give 2.6.1 a go

Mr.Kane