Adaptec 1210SA (SATA Raid 0) Problems

[gaz]

Im having problems installing gentoo on my adaptec 1210SA controller
I have 2 80gb Seagate Sata Drives connected to the controller which is currently running winxp and i have set aside a 15gb partition for gentoo.

However... the livecd doesnt recognise the device ive tried everything.. booting the different kernels on the cd with almost every combination of options ... and still nothing

any help would be appreciated

[gaz]

It seems ive found *A* solution...
the ac-sources has support for this chipset... but its useless since i cant mount a partition from the livecd (I have no other hdds to do tmp install on)

Im downloading the Mandrake 9.1 ISO's and doing a temp installation then install gentoo via the mandrake installation with ac-sources

(mandrake 9.1 has builtin support for the sil3112 chipset)

I will post back here with my progress

[gaz]

This is gay..

There is a modules called aar1210.o on the cd that came with the controller..
I copied it to a floppy and tried insmod on it with the gentoo livecd..
it complains about the module being compiled with gcc version 2 and using it with a gcc version 3 compiled kernel is known not to work.. even with 'insmod -f aar1210.o' it refuses to load (lots of unresolved symbols) ..

I tried it with mandrake 9.1 .. it didnt find the controller automatically so i tried 'insmod -f aar1210.o' from the floppy and it worked! it found the partitions and i installed mandrake 9.1 on it.. however since the module was loaded from the floppy.. when i rebooted it couldnt find the root partition :\

so ive given up on mandrake and im going to keep on trying with gentoo...

If anyone has any suggestions please let me know!!