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

[Pierre-Francois Honore]

On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 19:36, 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.

Last week, I did that on a Dell Precision WorkStation with a Promise
FastTrak S150
tx2 equivalent to the PDC 20378 controller of your ASUS P4C800-E mobo. I
have used a standard IDE drive during the installation and compiled the
driver from :
http://www.promise.com/support/download/download2_eng.asp?productId=107&category=All&os=100


> 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.
> 
> I must commission this system this week and hope
> to make the decision today.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ray
> 
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