[Asterisk-Users] Semi OT - SuperMicro config question for the Linux/Hardware jedi's - $50 bounty!

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Cory Andrews wrote:
> I have a SuperMicro 5013C-MT with the P4SCT+ motherboard and am having 
> trouble
> with all Linux distributions  (Debian, Gentoo, Redhat ES3 and
> Ubuntu). No distributions will detect the SATA drives and therefore
> cannot install.

That motherboard has an Adaptec/Marvell SATA controller, which does not 
have a open source driver in those distributions. There is an 
open-source driver in the very latest 2.6 kernel releases, but it won't 
be included in the installer kernels for any of those distros.

You will either have to:

A) use the Intel SATA controller and skip the Adaptec one until you get 
the distro up and running and can update the kernel

B) build your own installer kernel using a more up-to-date kernel source 
tarball

C) build a module you could load from a 'driver disk' for the distros 
that support them, using a backport of the open-source driver