I've come to the conclusion that the Rocket 1540 is quite frankly a useless
card, and to get it to work with 2.6.x is probably asking too much.  I've
managed to RMA the Rocket 1540 card, and I'm buying a Promise SATA150 TX4.

So to repeat for future reference by the list, Rocket 1540 on Linux (esp 2.6)
is a nono.  Buy a Promise card.

Just to finish off my bit of this thread, my Promise SATA150 TX4 arrived on
Friday and is thus far working absolutely perfectly (2.6.5).

Cheers all,

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Nick Maynard
nick.maynard@alumni.doc.ic.ac.uk