Mark Lane wrote:
On August 6, 2004 01:13 pm, netmask <netmask@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:I have been using an IDE disk to boot, and a SATA drive for a second disk since RH9, and my setup has worked fine.
- generally, if you're going to use on-board SATA, don't use IDE too.I've never had any problem mixing them.. but this was on the 2.4.x line of
kernels.. I've not had to deal with SATA in 2.6
Which makes your previous post about FC2 and SATA irrelevant because you haven't used it.
Before libata, SATA drives were using the IDE drivers. With the 2.6 kernel, some SATA controllers and drives are using libata.see previous thread.. after some kernel release they changed from IDE to
SCSI device driver
No that's not the case. FC2 uses libata primarily for SATA where as FC1 used a third party drivers that made the drives look like scsi devices.
Note Libata treats some controllers differently. For instance it treats via and silicon image controllers as IDE controllers and promise SATA raid controllers as SCSI. As such some drives show up as ide and some as SCSI depending on which controller they are hooked up to.
Until 2.6.7, my drive on a sil 3112 was detected as /dev/hde. With the upgrade to 2.6.7, that changed, and now the drive is detected as /dev/sda.
