On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, List Mail User wrote:

>> ...
>>
>> On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 10:02:21AM -0700, Peter C. Wallace wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have a ASUS SK8N motherboard based system that I would like to use with
>>>> NetBSD 2.0, the install kernels (either i386 or AMD64) dont recognize my
>>>> SATA drives...
>>>>
>>>> Is the Promise R20378 RAID controller supported yet? (I dont need raid,
>>>> just SATA support)
>>>
>>> the 20378 is supported by pdcsata, which has been pulled up a few days ago
>>> to the netbsd-2 branch. So either use a 2.0_STABLE or a 3.0_BETA snapshot.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
>>>     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
>>> --
>>>
>>
>>
>> OK, thats good news, Will give it a try...
>>
>>
>> Peter Wallace
>> Mesa Electronics
>>
> 	If it is anything like my ASUS K8VSE Deluxe, there is a BIOS
> option to set the Promise to either "RAID" or "IDE" mode.  It doesn't
> work when set to "RAID", but works fine with "IDE".  Also, the 2.0.2
> install iso for i386 will work just fine, then you can build a kernel
> and upgrade to amd64; The amd64 iso or install floppies boot the kernel,
> but then the machine reboots immediately.  It is now happily running
> 3.99.x with raidframe.  Also note, that just like the older Promise
> controllers (but documented for this one), ATAPI devices will not work
> connected to the Promise's ATA133 port (mine has 2 SATA ports and one
> channel of ATA133).
>
>
> 	Paul Shupak
>



No go with 2.0.2 i386 ISO :-(

Still no drives found.

Peter Wallace