Andy, my controllers (there are two on the mainboard via and promise) were supported by the installation. On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 apjaworski@xxxxxxx wrote: > > Kevin, > > I hope it is OK to bother you again about the SATA problem with Linux. In > your answer to my original question (below) you mentioned that FC1 > recognized your SATA drives with no difficulty. Did you have to use the > supplementary block driver diskette (from the image directory on yarrow > disc1) or the install process from the FC1 CD took care of recognizing the > drives? > > Did you by any chance install any MS Windows system on this hardware before > Linux. If so, my understanding is that you need to follow a special > procedure and have a driver diskette when installing, say, W2k. > > Thanks in advance, > > Andy > > __________________________________ > Andy Jaworski > 518-1-01 > Process Laboratory > 3M Corporate Research Laboratory > ----- > E-mail: apjaworski@xxxxxxx > Tel: (651) 733-6092 > Fax: (651) 736-3122 > > > |---------+-----------------------------> > | | Kevin Street | > | | <kwsml@xxxxxxxxxx>| > | | Sent by: | > | | fedora-list-admin@| > | | redhat.com | > | | | > | | | > | | 01/22/2004 21:40 | > | | Please respond to | > | | fedora-list | > | | | > |---------+-----------------------------> > >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| > | | > | To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx | > | cc: | > | Subject: Re: New system and Seria ATA | > >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| > > > > > 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 > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2
