<div>Matthew Macdonald-Wallace Wrote...</div> <div> </div> <div>A quick google for "ubuntu highpoint 1540" returned the following:<BR><BR>================================================<BR><BR><A href="http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html#highpoint" target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html#highpoint</FONT></A><BR><BR>HighPoint RocketRAID 1540/1542/1544/1640 & 454 (HPT374 chipset), <BR>RocketRAID 1520 (HPT372, HPT372N, or HPT372A chipset), and Rocket 1520<BR> <BR>(HPT302N chipset ? non-RAID) PCI cards ? fakeraid. Supported by <BR>drivers/ide's hpt36x driver, by at latest 2.4.21-pre5. No libata <BR>driver exists for these, but Alan Cox is working on one (as of <BR>2006-01). Note: Some recent HighPoint cards use Marvell 88SX50xx chips<BR> <BR>(for which see separate driver info). Problematic proprietary Linux <BR>i386 binary drivers for HighPoint fakeraid (release 2.0 of
which is <BR>reported to malfunction or even fail to compile on later 2.6 kernels <BR>ranging, at least, from 2.6.8 through 2.6.14) are available, but, as <BR>usual, you're better off using Linux's own open-source "md" <BR>software-RAID driver. (Warning: You'll need to load the proprietary <BR>driver only into kernels lacking the conflicting drivers/ide htp36x <BR>driver, in the presence of which your system will seize up, at boot <BR>time.)<BR><BR>============================================================<BR><BR>Googling the chipset (HPT374) returned a blog post ( <BR><A href="http://stefan.freyr.org/?page_id=6" target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>http://stefan.freyr.org/?page_id=6</FONT></A> ) which details how to get the <BR>module and use it properly on Ubuntu. Follow the instructions and pay<BR>extra special attention to the "blacklisting" and "initramfs" sections<BR>or you will not be able to boot into Linux
and will have to revert to <BR>the live CD!<BR>DO NOT RUN THE "fdisk" COMMAND AT THE END OR YOU WILL LOOSE ALL OF YOUR<BR> DATA.<BR><BR>Hope this helps, and in future remember...google is your friend! :o)<BR><BR>Matt.</div> <div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div> <div>Hi Matt</div> <div>Thank you for reply. I did indeed do some googling for some answers (after posting on Ubuntu answers on launchpad - incidentally I'm 46yrs old), and I did come across the blog instructions which you so kindly posted above. However, at that time I did not feel confident enough to try and follow those instructions. I think however that I now have no other option, other than buying a new motherboard with more sata ports onboard, which I'm not quite ready to do yet.</div> <div>So I will take the plunge and give it a go, probably this weekend, when I have some time.</div> <div>Many
thanks for your efforts and your reply.</div> <div>Also many thanks to all of you that replied.</div> <div> </div> <div>Kind Regards</div> <div><BR>N3m3sis</div> <div> </div> <div>(aka Rohan O'mard)</div><p> 
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