I'm having the same trouble with SATA that many are having. I am building a high powered desktop for a a stockmarket day trader, he has puchaced a mother board with an onboard via SATA/RAID. The drive however is NOT raided--it is just a single SATA drive. The install of slackware does not see the drive.

What I would like to do is to build a 2.6/patched bzImage on my computer and use it for the install of his. Has anyone done this? What are the pitfalls?

The reason for 2.6.0test9 is that it is supposed to find these drives--also there is a patch for via SATA that I think I should also try.

My plan is to build everything under the sun into the kernel (huge and bloaty) then if I can boot/fdisk/install then I'll re-rebuild the kernel.

Please let me know if you have done something similar--as I have a few days before he NEEDS it.

Any thought apreciated

It's been done, there were some boot images around for doing redhat and mandrake installs that have replaced kernels for HPT raid controllers.



worked great

Thank you,

I'll give it a shot