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

[Raymond Lillard]

Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:

 >> 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 just finished a WBEL 3.0 Respin 1 install at home, and it went 
flawlessly.  However, while I have a PATA and a SATA drive, I'm using an 
MSI Neo2 motherboard that's using the 865PE chipset, not the 875. 
However, to get it to work correctly and see both drives, I had to set 
the BIOS to legacy mode.  If I didn't, neither linux nor win2k would see 
both drives.  Depeinding upon my other BIOS settings, I'd see either the 
PATA or the SATA drive, but not both.


Benjamin,

Well, I bit the bullet and installed WBEL.  The stock WBEL kernel
can see the controller in the "Compatible" mode, but does not
configure it.

 From my hardware file: "hwconf"
-
class: RAID
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: unknown
desc: "Promise Technology, Inc.|unknown device 105a:3373"
vendorId: 105a
deviceId: 3373
subVendorId: 1043
subDeviceId: 80f5
pciType: 1
pcibus:  3
pcidev:  4
pcifn:  0
-
class: IDE
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: ata_piix
desc: "Intel Corp.|82801EB (ICH5) Serial ATA 150 Storage Controller"
vendorId: 8086
deviceId: 24d1
subVendorId: 1043
subDeviceId: 80a6
pciType: 1
pcibus:  0
pcidev: 1f
pcifn:  2
-


If I am forced to run "Compatible", I have another problem.
In the "Compatible" mode the BIOS requires that I choose
between the Primary P-ATA devices or the Secondary P-ATA
devices to co-exist with the SATA devices.

I have 3 traditional IDE devices (2 HD and 1 CD).
Thus in the "Compatible" mode I loose either a disk or the
CDROM.  If Linux cannot be coerced to manage this board
in the "Enhanced" mode, I must go back to FreeBSD.

I do have an Adaptec 29160 to handle a tape drive.  I
suppose I could get a SCSI CDROM drive and forget about
the Secondary IDE bus.

Thanks for your help.
Ray