[plug] SATA chipset support question

[Chris Caston]

On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 16:39, Brad Campbell wrote:
> Chris Caston wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm eagerly preparing to install Linux on a new system with a MSI 845Pe
> > Max intel chipset motherboard sporting a Promise 20376 chipset that
> > controls 2 SATA and one Ultra DMA ports.
> > 
> > The drive I'm going to be using is a Western Digital 120gb SATA ~7,000
> > RPM with 8mb cache.
> > 
> > Anyone know if there is an installer that would support this?
> 
> Dunno about an installer, libata will support the SATA ports but not the PATA port.
> Jeff Garzik has the info required to support the PATA port from Promise but not had the time to 
> actually add support for it yet.
> 
> Promise cards under libata rock! (Well under any kernel < 2.6.6 anyway)
> 
> It's disheartening to see just how quickly you can slam up against the PCI bus 133MB/s bandwidth 
> limit though.
> 
> Brad

Thanks Brad,

Libranet is still something I would need to buy I presume?

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