I'm about to install Fedora Core 3 on an SATA harddrive, anyone have any tips or advice before I start? I've heard about some peoples problems and want to do my best to avoid them.
If it works out of the box, it works good.
If it doesn't work out of the box, Linux probably doesn't support that chipset yet. Just set BIOS to emulate old (parallel) IDE, and than it works again.
If you have card/chip with fake RAID (most SATA cards/chips are like that), turn it off. You can't use it under Linux, and there is no advantage of using it (it is just software RAID anyhow, you are better of configuring native Linux software RAID). Leave it on only if you know your chip really has hardware RAID (as I said, vast majority don't have it).
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