On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If one of you knows the similar recipe for esata, I would very much > appreciate it. You'll need a driver for the SATA controller that is built into your PC. SATA uses the ATA data stream over twisted pair serial cables. The controllers that drive the SATA cables are made by many different vendors; each of them needs its own specific driver. If you're able to access the drive when you're booted up, try an lsmod to see if its driver is loaded as a module. It might be compiled directly into the kernel though - if it is, you'll need to configure a kernel build that makes a module for that driver. If you intend to make an initrd that anyone can use, you'll need to build modules from all of the available SATA drivers and include them. eSATA is just a regular SATA cable with a different kind of physical connector; there's no special software support needed for eSATA as opposed to internal SATA. My motherboard has a bunch of internal SATA ports; I bought an SATA to eSATA adapter that just has two SATA cables that attach to a PCI slot cover, which has two eSATA ports on it. It's nothing more than a cabling adapter - there's no logic circuits or software for it. Don Quixote -- Don Quixote de la Mancha quixote@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.dulcineatech.com Dulcinea Technologies Corporation: Software of Elegance and Beauty. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
