On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Connie Sieh wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, John Rowe wrote:
> 
> > This seems to be something of an ongoing, underlying issue: how do I
> > find out which hardware drivers are present in the install kernel? My
> > current problem is that I have an asus motherboard which has an Intel
> > ICH7R chipset with sata and a Silicon Image 3132 sata chipset which
> > claims to have been supported since kernel 2.4. But my SL 40 install
> 
> It may have been supported in later kernel 2.4 as these are new hardware.
> 
> In this case you will have to read all of the release notes.  
> 
> /usr/share//usr/share/doc/sl-release-3.0.?/RELEASE-NOTES-*i386-en
> 
> The reason for reading the release notes vs something else is that all the 
> other things will show is that there is Silicon Image support and not 
> which chipsets.
> 
> You could use modinfo on the modules in /lib/modules/<kernel 
> version>/kernel/  to look at what info they provide.
> 
> A note on the ICH7R chipset,  it has different bios options.  Some of 
> which Linux does not support as well(raid support, added in 2.4.31).  I 
> think the option that is best supported is something that does not say 
> raid in the name.  I do not remember the exact wording.  You want the 
> option that has each disk not part of a raid.
> 

Someone else just mentioned that option on the list.  It is
 
SATA BIOS settings to accommodate the legacy hardware such as PATA drives 
("combination" mode).

This should make the SATA just "jbod"(just a bunch of disks) and not raid.

-Connie Sieh
> 
>  > disk says it can't find 
> any disks. 
> > > Frustrated!
> 
> Tell Intel.
> 
> > 
> > John
> > 
> 
> -Connie Sieh
>