Giga-byte GA-8KNXP mainboard

[Georgios Petasis]

I have a similar model (K8NNXP) which also has the same raid chips
on board. I have never tried the IT8212 chip, but under core 2
you can use the Sil3112 chip as a plain IDE controller.
This means that you can't have raid with this chip for the
2 serial ata disks under linux.

Under fedora core 1, the Sil3112 is not recognised at all,
so if you want to access disks in it you must have a 2.6 kernel,
which means at least core 2. I have contacted both Sil & gigabyte
many times for raid support on the Sil3112 as a plain
customer. Sil didn't answer at all, and gigabyte suggested to 
install windows (they even pointed a link to download the 64-bit
beta version!!!). I think you can find raid functionality on the Sil3112
if you ran redhat 8/9, but not fedora releases (32/64 bit).

Gigabyte does not seem to have good customer support (they don't
even provide a utility of monitoring cpu temp & fun speed!).
Lets hope that the hardware at least lives more than a year...

George

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Maurice K" <maurice at gkbikes.com>
To: "Fedora list" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 2:20 PM
Subject: Giga-byte GA-8KNXP mainboard


> Has anyone experience with this mainboard's extra possibillities
> (IDE3/IDE4 or SATA2-4) on Fedora Core 2?
> 
> The chipset for IDE3+4 is an IT8212  and for SATA it's a Sil3112.
> both can be used for raid 0, 1, 0+1, jbod and standard.
> IDE1+2 and SATA1+2 is handles by the ICH5.
> With the mainboard comes a cd with an adapted kernel for redhat 7.3
> (kernel 2.4) but I run the latest kernel which I got from up2date.
> 
> In the near future I want to buy a new harddisk and IDE1+2 are full.
> For IDE1 it's 160GB + 40GB and for IDE2 it's cd-rw + DVD+rw
> 
> I'm fairly new to linux and want to know if these chips are recognised
> by kernel 2.6 or that I have to use drivers for them (and where to get).
> 
> 
> 
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