Ive bought this nice board equipped with dual celerons 466mhz not overclocked recently, and had planned to use an external pata adapter to make use of drives larger than 137gb limit.
Therefore i bought the noname Silicon Image 680 card. Unlike dewey's thread "http://www.bp6.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=2340", it actually initially boots up niceley, shows the bios, detects the drives and so on.
The very sad thing is that the controller and system i seems to work nice in SUSE 9.1 Prof and Fedora Core, Windows XP too. BUT i cannot use this controllers drives as bootdrives, and whats much worse, is i cannot boot the system at all exect when i set the CDROM, A, C order in the BIOS.
Unfortunaltely the SUSE linux CD can make a boot from a harddrive, and that WORKS!, but the thing is i cannot live with having to use an "bootup" CD everytime i must restart my server.
The failure is "VERYFYING DMI POOL..." syndrome. It gets struck there, the only way i can make the board bootup frem somewhere is from BOOTCD in the CDROM, A, C mode.
I am using the RU bios with the HPT bios.
I have been booting up and using the board without any bootupproblems without the controller installed. Same thing is when the raid-card is attached to the BP6, but is not connected to any drives.
Does anybody have a clue what could be a solution?
Have anybody got success with this particular pata (raid) card?
- Kimej
BTW. The specs is:
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2x 2466mhz celeron on BP6,
256mb ram,
SILICON IMAGE 680 controller (THE PROBLEM)
CDROM-drive attached to the IDEports on the board,
primary bootdrive on the IDE controller on the BP6,
several disks on the SiliconImage controller.
]