[wplug] Highpoint Rocket 100 IDE ATA disk controller card

[Tom Rhodes]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:57:55 -0800 (PST)
Sam Al-Droubi <saldroubi at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> Tom Rhodes <trhodes at FreeBSD.org> wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:29:01 -0800 (PST)
> Sam Al-Droubi  wrote:
> 
> > Hello everyone,
> > 
> > I was unsuccessful in using the Rocket 100 Controller card (http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/r100.htm) with Linux Open Suse 10.3 or Ubuntu 7.10.  Here is what is happening:
> > 
> > I have a bootable driver attached to the motherboard controller.  When I installed the Rockect 100 with no disks attached to it, it was recognized by the system and the Rocket 100 BIOS showed up.  The machine will boot with the bootable disk attached to the motherboard. When I attached a disk drive to the Rocket 100, the Linux (either  Opensuse or  Ubuntu) will hang. It seems the OpenSuse and Ubuntu recognize the Rocket 100 Controller but when a drive is attached to the controller, the OS hangs.  
> > 
> > Any idea what I should do?  If not does can anyone recommend a card that will work with Ubuntu right out of the box?
> 
> FreeBSD just got a driver for this in CURRENT, I'm unsure if
> it's been MFC'ed to appear in the 7.0 Release and if it will
> run your exact hardware.
> 
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> Tom Rhodes
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> Hi Tom,
> 
> Thank you for the response.  I am willing to buy another controller card so I could use my new 500GB IDE ATA drive but I am having troubles finding a controller card that is compatible by Ubuntu 7.10.  I simply haven't been able to find this information.  Any idea where to look?

First try to install with the drive installed and don't remove
it.  If that fails, look on Ubuntu's supported card list or
try to RMA the card (if it's supported).  Good luck!

-- 
Tom Rhodes