On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 21:50, apjaworski@xxxxxxx wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I need to put together a new system and I have been thinking about Serial > ATA drives. I searched stuff using Google and I found out about SATA > support for different chipsets. I also found out about libata modules in > 2.6.? kernels. However, my question is this: if I buy a brand new > hardware with SATA disks only, is there any way to install Linux on it? If > so, could somebody explain how or point me to some explanations? I have a couple of machines using ASUS P4P800 motherboards which use the ICH5R controller for SATA. I have a couple of Seagate SATA drives in each (no IDE or SCSI drives). I had no problem installing FC1, it recognized them without difficulty. I did not try the mb bios raid, but did set them up with the Linux sw raid on some partitions. The SATA drives show up as /dev/sda and sdb. hdparm treats them as SCSI drives, so doesn't show much. The smart monitoring daemon doesn't seem to be able to do anything with them, probably because it also thinks they are SCSI drives. Everything else that I've tried works fine and these two issues I just ignore. By the way, if you happen to use the same motherboard, plug your speakers into the line in jack (really!). You also have to tell the install to use the sk98lin module to get the on board ethernet recognized since it's not picked up by the probes. -- Kevin Street street@xxxxxxxxxx
