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Hello everyone I need a very odd feature. I'm working on a project to wipe 12 harddrives at a time. The pci cards I bought for more ide channels are super cheap. They use the vt6410 via chip. In linux there is support to use this chip as a regular ide controller. Here's the problem, these card have no bios code of there own on the pci. You can either load the chips rom file thru the computers bios or load it under your os. I know how to load firmware under linux for wi...

Axel and everyone Your questions are valid. I had similar question when I bought these cards. These cards in particular have no rom chip on the pci card. If you plug these into a computer they do nothing until you load them with there firmware. When vt6410 are used on motherboards not as stand alone cards the bios has this firmware and loads it into the chip set on boot making them show up and function using the linux driver for via ide controllers. In the case of add on cards the bios usually doesn't have this firmware included. In win land...

Hi All Just like to know if some one got or has running a "VIA 6410 IDE RAID Controller" with centos 4(.1) I have a server I need to get install, that has this on-board I have even test the with Knoppix 3.8 and it don't not pick it up at all. but the card and the drivers work ok ( tested this with the bart PE (XP) cd ) See BUG. "That's not a bug,

> Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:02:12 +0300 <pasik@iki.fi> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:55:49AM -0400, Mike Viau wrote: > > > > > > > > > Can you please paste the full boot messages before it locks up? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Unfortunately no, because I am not getting any

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