I have been trying to find information of the intel ich5, here is what I found

2.4.21-22: an allen cox patch added support, and there are a few other issues, I alsor ead somewhere that is is done through scsi low level.

2.6.0-testX: NOTHING ABOUT IT! no info! nada zip, please does anyone know? Also saw nothing about it in scsi low level when inside config, and nothing about it is ide support (intel support driver made no mention of it)


Other Info:
on an old forum from linuxquestions someone said intel had an official patch comming out, nothing is mentioned on intels website
the scsi low level driver is a temporary thing?


Please I really would like to know the details about this, and I am sure others do to, I have spent 3 hours searching google and linuxquestions and even all the recent kernel changelogs. I checked the linux-ide site and as usual it has a list of things it has/wants/might already have but is overall void of anything useful.

the main problem is that nomatter how you narrow the search down you get the same results, if you specify exactly what you want nothing is found, remove any one detail and boom hundreds of pages of useless results.

The ICH5 currently works stably with any of the Alan Cox patches after 2.4.21-pre4-ac1, as far as I can tell... at least, I've got a friend who's running it with that driver and its working fine.

Yes, the drive is emulated to scsi, which seems like a "for the time being" hack, who knows how long, so I would just try the following, if you can:

If you have a Dell Precision or one of the other pre-packaged machines with this board, put an normal ATA drive in there, install to that, compile a 2.4.23-preX-acX patched kernel, and then move everything over, use your install CD as a rescue disk to get to the SATA drive and then reconfigure your bootloader to point to the SATA drive which will be /dev/sda1, probably...

If you have one of the Asus or Abit boards you BIOS isn't mickey mouse, so you can set it to PIO legacy mode... the kernel should load and recognize the drive a a horkingly slow drive, more then enough to install on normally, then compile a kernel on... 2.4.23-preX-acX again, and then change /etc/fstab (which you have to do with the above too, remember, the drive is going to go from /dev/hda to /dev/sda).

Basically, the biggest pain in the ass for adding support to a system is the bloody drive controller, because that has to work to get a system in the first place, hence the above kludge. It runs though, just fine.

Cheers,

Finegan

I don't have the board, I want to get it, the abit ic7 max3, and I don't use 2.4.x I use the 2.6 test seriese, they support some stuff I need that 2.4 does not have, and I could find no ich5 stuff int he kernel so I havn't baught the board yet. and also thanx for the helper on how to install to it, I am way beyond that though, I planned to recompile my kernel then stick the board in.
Brief: your info is really good, but I am no newbie and I also use a different kernel.
Thanx for the reply though

Okay... hmm, sorry, too many replies to "how do I configure X" so I always assume the worst. Have you checked the -ac tree to 2.6.x? Cox usually adds support into both of those and then some day... it will make it into the kernel tree, but probably not until its no longer emulated to scsi.

Cheers,

Finegan

unfortunetly -test2-4 have no ac branch, and even if they did -4 has a broken internel alsa and external does not work on 2.6.