Promise Fastrack 378 S-ATA driver?

Dean Mumby dean at mumby.co.za
Tue Jan 27 19:48:14 UTC 2004


Matthew Walburn wrote:

>> I hope you don't mind my e-mailing yor directly. Did you get the 
>> Promise SATA150/Fastrack 378 S-ATA controller driver working with 
>> Fedora on the ASUS P4C800-E motherboard?
>
>
> Not a problem at all!
>
> I did get it working after _much_ fiddling around. I had to build a 
> driver disk though, and every time a kernel update comes out I have to 
> manually rebuild the module and the initial ramdisk.
>
> I wish I would have documented it a little better, cause I've sort of 
> forgotten. I could probably get you an img of the boot floppy I made 
> if you're interested.
>
> -Matthew
>
> -- 
> Matthew Walburn, RHCE
> Network Assistant - x. 3-4995
> MIT Department of Mathematics
>
>
I would be very interested if you dont mind , I could never build a 
module for a boot kernel which meant I had to start with rh9 and use yum 
to move to fc1 as I could complie the mdule for the fc1 kernel.

Regards
Dean





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