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Hai Darren, |
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I am running an x939 Athlon 64X2 3800+ with an ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe Board, |
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newest BIOS flashed (1016). |
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I am running a dual boot WinXP + Gentoo on am RAID 1 (so I need the BIOS RAID) |
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My findings are as follows: |
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- 1. the HD's (2x250GB Samsung SATA-II) were plugged into the nVidia SATA |
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controller (big mistake) |
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-> there is a typo on the boot menu of the 2005.1-r1 LiveCD: in order to get |
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the BIOS RAID on-line i have to utilize the dmraid tool. The LiveCD therefore |
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recomments the boot string "gentoo dmraid" which does nothing since the |
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correct boot string would be |
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"gentoo dodmraid" |
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-> during the stage 1 bootstrap i had several kernel Oops. It stopped when I |
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used the boot string |
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"gentoo dodmraid maxcpus=1" |
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Since i liked to utilize both CPU kernels on the final system I unscrewed the |
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box, replugged my disks to the 2nd (now SATA-II, Sil 3114) controler, |
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reformatted the disks and newly formatted, partitioned, and installed windows |
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XP |
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(1. partition 500MB for Boot (i need it because the BIOS can not access |
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partitions 20 Gig behind the beginning), 2. partition 20Gig XP, 3rd Partiton |
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10Gig VFAT, 4th partition 3Gig swap, 5th partition rest for Gentoo) |
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-> LiveCD still utilices the sata_nv driver since the very first install of |
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the HD's brought a nVidia signature to the HD's which are recognized by the |
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dmraid tool, and which are not overwritten by the reformat utilizing the Sil |
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3114 controller (really weird). |
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For the Istallation I still had to utilize "maxcpus=1". |
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My System now runs fine with both CPU kernels but I still have a system freeze |
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once a week allways after heavy disk utilization. |
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And I still have an issue with the nVidia GigEthernet interface. The Marvel |
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works fine. |
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Hope this helps a bit. |
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Cheers, |
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Stefan |
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Am Montag, 23. Januar 2006 22:30 schrieb Darren Grant: |
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> I'm currently looking to build a cost effective web/email server. |
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> I'm considering using an ASUS A8N-E with an x939 Athlon 64 x2 3800+ 2Ghz |
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> processor. I'm also hoping to use RAID-1 over dual SATA2 drives. In |
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> researching gentoo and SATA2, I've come across numerous problems that |
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> people are experiencing with the 2005.1-r1live-cd install and the |
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> sata_nv driver and SATA in general. Has this been fixed? Does anyone |
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> have any advice for me? Has anyone successfully installed on SATA2 |
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> drives running with an nforce4 chipset mobo? If they haven't, were they |
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> able to get SATA2 drives running as SATA1? Or at least SATA1 from a |
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> fresh install of the 2005.1-r1 AMD64 livecd? I noticed a lot of problems |
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> with the ASUS A8N-VM/CSM which is why I'm investigatin the A8NE. |
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> If this has already been discussed, I apologize in advance... I'm new to |
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> the list and couldn't find what I was looking for in the archives. |
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> Any help or advice would be appreciated. |
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