don't know about promise support as I have VIA chipsets on a gigabyte board.

Mdk installed without any hiccups so its not be an issue for me.....but because I had a slooow old computer and dial up modem.....I knew I would have a problem with my old slackware system.

so compiling a kernel with either inbuilt support or with ramdisk image with promise you may need to check out?

is you want to wait there is sata2 coming out at some time......more transfer speed

Yup, I will! Cheers, mate!