Any issues with MSI K8T-NEO-FIS2R?

[Mark]

On February 27, 2004 11:42 am, Rob Myers wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 11:24, Scott Coppen wrote:
> > Go with a SI311* based SATA controller.  I had to buy a SI3112 PCI
> > card as my onboard Promise controller is not supported.  Also, I
> > don't know if the new distro installs use a 2.6 kernel, so you may
> > have to do some fiddling to get your system to boot off the SATA
> > drive if your planning to use a new 2.6 (highly recommended).
>
> i havent tested kernel 2.6.3, but i had problems[1] with the sil3114
> libata patches with kernel 2.6.2 and kernel 2.6.1 when using with more
> than 4gb of ram.  the siimage ide driver works fine for me in larger
> memory configurations.  has anyone tested these drivers in the latest
> kernels?
>
I haven't tried libata drivers yet. We have the siimage drivers working with a 
modified 2.4.22-1.2174 kernel though. 

I know that Jeff Garzik released a patch recently to add support for all 4 
ports in Libata driver so he is working on getting the SIL3114 to working 
properly. You may want to report the problem to him.

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