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From: "Hemmann
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: JMicron confusion
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 23:28:00
Message-Id: 200609300102.14795.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: JMicron confusion by Richard Fish
1 On Saturday 30 September 2006 00:52, Richard Fish wrote:
2 > On 9/29/06, Ryan Sims <rwsims@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > > Let me rephrase my question: If I only use SATA drives, non RAID,
4 > > they only run through the P975 southbridge, and I should be ok, right?
5 >
6 > Well I don't own one of these things, but it looks like the SATA stuff
7 > goes through the JMicron chip, while the RAID is provided by the 975.
8 >
9 > It should be possible to get working, but I expect you'll have trouble
10 > with installation. It looks like the JMicron SATA support was added in
11 > 2.6.18, so I wouldn't really expect the 2006.1 liveCD to use the chip
12 > optimally, if at all. You might end up hunting down a different live
13 > CD, needing to stage it on a different system, or something else
14 > similarly difficult.
15
16 jmicron-support was added to 2.6.16. But I am not sure that it was added for
17 ALL jmicron controller ;)
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