[mythtv-users] Re: pcHDTV3000 - Anyone installed and use this?

Kyle Rose krose+mythtv at krose.org
Mon May 9 16:13:11 UTC 2005


> I would have been able to tell you had I been at home.  Sorry.  My
> motherboard is the EpOX EP-9NDA3+
> (http://www.epox.com/USA/product.asp?id=EP-9NDA3plus).

Well, from looking at the specs, I can suggest the following:

"Two S-ATA ports from nForce3 Ultra with up to 150MBps bandwidth
Two S-ATA ports from Marvell 88SR3020 SATA PHY"

I recommend using the nForce3 SATA heads.  You're not using RAID, right?
 Make sure it's set up as non-RAID in the BIOS, and then try these
instructions that I found with Google:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/5/2005/03/4/304143

"OK. I did a bit of searching and found these:

about half way down. Use find to search the page for "nforce3":

[url]http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html[/url]

Also about half way down, look at post by Augustus, he has a list in there:

[url]http://www.linuxhardware.org/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi?;act=ST;f=19;t=32;st=20[/url]

Look under "nForce3 Ultra Linux Support" which is a bit under the first
two pics. It tells where the drivers are in the config:

[url]http://www.linuxhardware.org/features/04/10/19/1654258.shtml[/url]

That is a bit to read and may require a bit of stiching together but it
did help me to find this in the 2.6.11-gentoo-r4 kernel config screen:

[CODE] │ │ [*] Serial ATA (SATA) support │ │
│ │ < > AHCI SATA support (NEW) │ │
│ │ < > ServerWorks Frodo / Apple K2 SATA support │ │
│ │ <*> Intel PIIX/ICH SATA support │ │
│ │ < > NVIDIA SATA support (NEW) │ │
│ │ < > Promise PATA 2027x support (NEW) │ │
│ │ < > Promise PATA 2027x support (NEW) │ │
│ │ < > Promise SATA TX2/TX4 support │ │
│ │ < > Pacific Digital SATA QStor support (NEW) │ │
│ │ Promise SATA SX4 support │ │
│ │ < > Silicon Image SATA support │ │
│ │ SiS 964/180 SATA support │ │
│ │ < > ULi Electronics SATA support (NEW) │ │
│ │ < > VIA SATA support │ │
│ │ < > VITESSE VSC-7174 SATA support │ │[/CODE]

It looks like it should work if whatever you install detects it
properly. If you need to use this, this is the path to the drivers:
Device Drivers > SCSI device support > SCSI low-level drivers, just in
case you need to know that. Also make sure you have your BIOS set up
properly before you start the install. From what I have read, that is
critical.

Now go install something and let us know how well, ;) , it goes.

Hope all that helps. I'm on a slow dial-up and it takes a while to get
all that. :( :( "


Cheers,
Kyle


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