Comments on: Debian on a Gigabyte 945 series motherboard

By: adam

adam — Sat, 31 May 2008 11:41:23 +0000

Etch has all the drivers built-in. You don’t need to install any additional drivers.

By: samir

samir — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:58:08 +0000

i want to 945gigabyte motherboard all drivers for donload

By: samir

samir — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:56:56 +0000

i want to gigabyte motherboard all drivers

By: adam

adam — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:26:23 +0000

I couldn’t figure it out either, that’s why I went for the software RAID. Of course that won’t help if you want to dual-boot with Windows.

Sorry Kastna, I can’t help you with that one. The only suggestion I have is to install an additional hard drive and put Linux on that.

By: Kastna

Kastna — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:58:16 +0000

Well, that seams to be an interesting solution, to set a software-raid instead a hardware one.

My problem: I want dual boot: I have also a Motherboard with 945P-chipset, set up a Hardware-RAID 0 and a Windows is already installed and running. I saved 50 gigs for a little Linux-experimenting-partition, but when installing etch (stable meanwhile), it does recognize the RAID. It shows both SATA-Disks, but no RAID-Volume.

How to teach debian etch-setup to recognize my hardware-raid, created by the onBoard Intel 945P-chipset?

By: adam

adam — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 05:24:19 +0000

It’s been a while since I have used this board. From memory, this is how you disable RAID…

1. Boot it up and press the Delete key several times to enter the BIOS settings menu.

2. Find the RAID option which is probably under ‘Integrated Peripherals’ (I can’t quite remember, you might have to hunt around a bit for it) and set it to ‘Disabled’.

3. Press F10 to save your new setting, the board will reboot and you should be set to go.

BTW, since I had a good experience running Etch on this board, I have now installed Etch on every server I maintain. It has been excellent and very stable.

By: brandilion

brandilion — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:51:45 +0000

how does one disable hardware RAID in BIOS? I am having a similar problem at work.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 14:16:36 +0000

heh! I made the leap to etch after similar sata issues with sarge.

4 servers later - no reliability issues. Although I did compile a new 2.6.17.11 kernel for the sake of it.

You’ll find the raid is “fake raid” - drivers under windows required. Ignore it as you have done and go the software raid.