Hi gentoo-fans, I recently bought a VIA K8M890 based mobo (asus a8v-vm) and tried to install gentoo on it. To my big surprise, my two s-ata disks have not been detected, so my installation finished very soon :-( To my surprise, old backup p-ata drive has been detected, as well as other peripherials attached to the southbridge VT8251 (network, on-board graphics, sound). I installed gentoo on that old p-ata drive, recompilled kernel with whatever via/s-ata options, but no help. Still s-ata drives not detected...
Board is definitelly good, I tried installing windows, and s-ata disks have been correctly recognised. Seems only linux has somehow problem. And this southbridge is nothing new, used at least one year in various via-chipsets... Does anybody have some experiences with s-ata disks attached to via k8m880/890 (vt9251) and gentoo/linux? Or where could I find some info about the latest status of linux <-> k8m880/890 support? Jarry -- [email protected] mailing list
