Motherboard AMD64, SATA and Linux

[Kazzan]

Hello,

I have 2 SATA hard drive
I have AMD 64 CPU
I don't want to use RAID SATA

I'm looking for a Motherboard working with Linux* to set up my CPU and my
SATA hard drive. I tried a MSI card but It was not possible to boot!
Someone knows something working?

*Linux can be Suse9.2, RHEE 3, Fedore, Mandrake 10.1, Debian... all is ok

Thanks in advance.

 

[Wes Newell]

I have 2 SATA hard drive
I have AMD 64 CPU
I don't want to use RAID SATA

I'm looking for a Motherboard working with Linux* to set up my CPU and my
SATA hard drive. I tried a MSI card but It was not possible to boot!
Someone knows something working?

*Linux can be Suse9.2, RHEE 3, Fedore, Mandrake 10.1, Debian... all is ok

You need to serch through the kernel config file for sata support for the
sata chip used on the board you plan to buy. Then double check the kernel
docs for that driver. Here's a list from the default Mdk 10.1 2.6.8.1
kernel.
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y
CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SVW=m
CONFIG_SCSI_ATA_PIIX=m
CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_NV=m
CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_PROMISE=m
CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SX4=m
CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SIL=m
CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SIS=m
CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_VIA=m
CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_VITESSE=m

Sorry I couldn't be much help but I don't have any sata drives.

 

[General Schvantzkoph]

Hello,

I have 2 SATA hard drive
I have AMD 64 CPU
I don't want to use RAID SATA

I'm looking for a Motherboard working with Linux* to set up my CPU and my
SATA hard drive. I tried a MSI card but It was not possible to boot!
Someone knows something working?

*Linux can be Suse9.2, RHEE 3, Fedore, Mandrake 10.1, Debian... all is ok

Thanks in advance.

Could you me more specific when you said it wouldn't boot. Do you mean
that it didn't get to the BIOS or that you could install some
distribution? I'm using and MSI K8N Neo2 with and SATA drive. I'm using
Fedora Core 3. Mandrake has a bug in it's installer that hangs when the
nv_sata driver is loaded, the bug hasn't been resolved yet as of
10.2Beta3, hopefully they will have it fixed before Beta4. In the mean
time Fedora Core 3, both 32 and 64 bit, works just fine with Nforce3s and
SATA drives.

 

[Kazzan]

Could you me more specific when you said it wouldn't boot. Do you mean
that it didn't get to the BIOS or that you could install some
distribution? I'm using and MSI K8N Neo2 with and SATA drive. I'm using
Fedora Core 3. Mandrake has a bug in it's installer that hangs when the
nv_sata driver is loaded, the bug hasn't been resolved yet as of
10.2Beta3, hopefully they will have it fixed before Beta4. In the mean
time Fedora Core 3, both 32 and 64 bit, works just fine with Nforce3s and
SATA drives.

We tested: Suse 9.2, RHEE 3, Mandrake 10.1, Fedora C3 and Debian. We setup
all the system well but at the reboot it blocked on GRUB or LILO.... we
tested with single IDE or SCSI hard drive and all was ok.

 

[General Schvantzkoph]

We tested: Suse 9.2, RHEE 3, Mandrake 10.1, Fedora C3 and Debian. We setup
all the system well but at the reboot it blocked on GRUB or LILO.... we
tested with single IDE or SCSI hard drive and all was ok.

When you did the GRUB install did you add any other OSs? I've see this
behavior when I've added a chain to a partition that I thought was
bootable but wasn't, at least I think that was what caused the problem. I
had the same problem with FC3 on several old machines as well. A clean
reinstall using the default GRUB configuration with the only modification
being to use the root partition instead of the MBR for all but the first
OS (all of my machines are multiboot) always seems to do the trick. Once
FC3 has booted for the first time and finished it's configuration there
never seems to be a problem. Adding additional entries to the grub.conf
file can then been done by hand.