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Hi there, once you see the power down message, your machine is actually off, software wise. You pretty much just need to hit the switch. To get your machine to power down automatically, enabling ACPI in lilo/grub should allow an auto power off. regards, armond

Hi all, I've givn up trying with mandrake. Will try with other distros this week. Will let u know if I have any success. Regards, Armond

Hey somedude, I managed to *finally* get into contact with someone from Promise (via gigabyte - long story), however, they do not support Linux is the official answer. I seem to have gotten about as far as you, except my drives are still not correctly identified by the installer. Also moans about corrupt partition and then gets into loop. *sigh* I have tried everything that I could think of. I've even loaded Mdk 10.0 official to my notebook and tried compiling the *partial* linux source against both kernels 2.4.25 and 2.6.3 (Mdk, with minimal install, basically only source trees). It's driving me pretty nuts, anyway, I shall search. this may be the end of me haha. Good luck n thanks Regards, Armond

Good stuff. Lemme know your progress. Thanks, P.S. I tried with the Partial Linux source, and got some compile errors. They don't look like they can be fixed. Regards, Armond

I still had no luck after compiling a driver from the

Thanks. Lemme know if you had any joy? Regards, Armond

Hi, I'm having massive difficulties installing Mandrake 9.2 or Mandrake 10 Official on a Gigabyte Rackmount Server with an onboard Promise PDC20265R IDE RAID controller using FastTrack100 Lite. The Installation does not recognise the controller as a RAID controller, and effectively tries to handle the drives connected to it as independent IDE drives. Unfortunately, this does not help as these disks cannot be booted. In fact, after reboot, I end up with a black screen filled with 999's and no bootloader. I've searched the net flat for an answer to this problem, and have found "partial linux drivers" on the promise website [www.promise.com]. However, I am unable to figure out what to do with these partial linux drivers. Is there a simple, step by step way in which I can install the system completely from CD, and ensure that somehow these drivers get installed correctly? I've attempted with both Mandrake 9.2 and 10.0. If anyone has had similar issues, please post, as I'm trying to either figure out a workaround, or at the very least, try and work out a way to install the system succesffuly. Regards, Armond