Re: [gentoo-user] Finally installed Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530 desktop

2007-09-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 06:16:33PM +0200, b.n. wrote > I use a SATA disk at home but they are not in "IDE mode", AFAIK... it > shows up as /dev/sda - Can you explain me the difference? Is it needed > for some chipsets? There are two different ways of doing things, and they require different dri

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally installed Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530 desktop

2007-09-02 Thread b.n.
Walter Dnes ha scritto: > I checked dell.com's support knowledgebase. Only the most recent > kernels support SATA drives in IDE mode, Sorry for the ignorance... but what does this mean? I use a SATA disk at home but they are not in "IDE mode", AFAIK... it shows up as /dev/sda - Can you explain

[gentoo-user] Finally installed Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530 desktop

2007-09-01 Thread Walter Dnes
I gave up on trying to get the integrated NIC working under linux. I slapped in an el-cheapo no-name PCI NIC with a Via-Rhine chip, and things went swimmingly. I checked dell.com's support knowledgebase. Only the most recent kernels support SATA drives in IDE mode, and it looks like the Gent