Running Gentoo with nforce2 and sata

KgAutobahn · n00b Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 45 Location: Sweden

Anyone who have experience in running gentoo with a nforce2 card and wit ha sata disk ? Works well ?

zhen · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 5:17 pm Post subject:

I am using 2.6.1 with my nForce2 and it runs beautifully - just make absolutely sure that you either disable ACPI in your BIOS or in the kernel. On my board (Asus A7N8X Deluxe), enabling ACPI would crash my machine after about 30 seconds of use.

As for SATA, I have heard good reports, but I have yet to get me a drive

floffe · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 11:21 pm Post subject:

Yup. I run 2.6.1-mm2 on my DFI Lanparty NFII Ultra B with a hitachi 80GB SATA disk as the only harddrive. It works fine

And this mobo does not have the usual silicon image 3112, but the newer 3114 SATA controller. Strangely enough, I had to patch this kernel to make it work even though the docs said it was included in the mm2 release. But now it works fine. There were some problems getting it to install though, since neither the livecd nor knoppix found the controller. I had to compile a custom kernel and put that one on the livecd to make it work.

See this thread for a howto: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=21327

EDIT: And no, I haven't tried ACPI, although I think it's activated in the BIOS.

malloc · l33t Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 762

Zhen i'm running a 2.6.1 kern on the same mobo as you and i have acpi enabled and everything works fine. Are you sure you aren't talking about APIC instead of ACPI?? Nforce2 APIC has a known issue in the 2.6.1 wich the machine hard-lock however there are 2 patches to solve this.

zhen · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 1:01 am Post subject:

Bah, APIC, sorry

malloc · l33t Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 762

Zhen I mix them up all the time

As for the patches i think they are available in mm-sources (just search the break-out dir wich has the full patches used and get them, of course love-sources has them also

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