[WBEL-users] WBEL (respin) with 875P Mobo

[Benjamin J. Weiss]

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Raymond Lillard wrote:

> 
> I would like to install WBEL (respin) on an
> ASUS P4C800-E mobo.  This system is to have
> the OS installed on the Primary Master.  I
> intend to use the two SATA-150 drives as a
> software RAID1 for the data shares of a Samba
> PDC.
> 
> I have booted up on the the install disk and
> the SATA drives are not recognized but I'm hoping
> that if I install the OS I will find the SATA
> driver support available when I rebuild the kernel.
> 
> Is this correct.  I have an FreeBSD installation
> on the system at the moment, but am having some
> Samba issues (which I won't go into here).  I
> am seriously considering moving to WBEL, but
> don't want to blow-out my existing and partially
> working installation, if WBEL doesn't support
> access to the SATA drives.

Ray,

I've got a different mobo that I dual-booted with Win2K and FC1.  I was 
using both a PATA and a SATA drive, and had to change the bios to 
"compatibility mode" or something similar, in order to get it to work.

FC1 was on the primary partition, IIRC.

I'd be happy to do a test install tonight to see how it works, and to give 
you the lowdown on the chipset I'm using.  It's an MSI mobo, I believe.

Ben