Redhat 8/9 or FreeBSD 5.2.1 on ASUS PC-DL Deluxe, anyone?

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Micke Ohrberg wrote:

>Hello Jason,
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>Saturday, August 7, 2004, 11:04:47 PM, you wrote:
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>JC> Micke Ohrberg wrote:
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>>>  I'm going nuts here. I have two 80G SATA drives on the Promise
>>>  interfaces, 2 PC2700 DIMMs, a TNT2 AGP card, a generic 52x CDROM,
>>>  and every time I try to install RedHat 8/9 I get kernel panics. That
>>>  is with the disks in RAID mode on the Promise 20378 controller. I
>>>  think it works better when building with the SATA controllers
>>>  'emulating' PATA.
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>JC> Buy the 3Ware two port SATA, hardware RAID controller for $100 and be
>JC> done with it. IIRC, the Promise isn't truely hardware RAID anyways.
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>Well, if it was that simple :) I just don't understand it - There are
>drivers for the chipset, and HT shouldn't be a problem with RH9. It
>just completely wigs out. I just don't get it. *sigh* I'm going to try
>with some different memory. Maybe the speed is wrong for it...
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>In short - I don't think it has anything to do with the chipset. I
>think it's something else entirely.
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if you dont think its a sata problem try using one of the standard ide 
ports, disable the sata stuf and see if it runs if it does.. then enable 
the sata stuf  see if it panics  if it still doesnt panic it may have 
some other weard issue with sata.   if it still panics with ata100 
drives you know its not the sata stuff.