Re: Re: SATA

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On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 n5xmt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Joel,
What driver did you use for the Promise controller?
I have a Soltek K8TPro-939 MB with the PDC20579 chip and nothing seems to work...

on mine:

sata_via                7237  2
sata_promise            9797  0
libata                 41541  2 sata_via,sata_promise
sd_mod                 16449  3
scsi_mod              119697  4 sg,sata_promise,libata,sd_mod


From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2004/12/25 Sat PM 12:02:39 EST
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: SATA

On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, Mark Weaver wrote:

Bob Chiodini wrote:
Mark Weaver wrote:

David Corrigan wrote:

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.

David.


Hi David,

My experience with FC3 and SATA drives is it really depends on the
controller and whether or not the CD drive is IDE or not. I recently had
the unpleasant experience of attempting to install FC3 on an HP Proliant
and no matter how hard we tried and no matter what we tried it wouldn't go
on correctly. We'd get the system to install ok, but it wouldn't boot.
kept on dying in the first stages of the boot with kernel panic because it
couldn't see the partitions where the OS was located.

the problem came down to a catch 22 because of the particular kernel
driver that "had" to be present in order to be able to install and run FC
with the controller that was in the machine. Had we been trying to install
RH Enterprise Linux that would have been a different story.

What we finally ended up doing was installing Mandrake 10.0 on this
machien and its running fine. My advice to you is to research fully your
hardware compatibility before embarking.

Just installed FC3 on a MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum Socket 939 with a 120GB SATA
drive.  No problems that I've noticed.  Uses the nv_sata driver.  It just
worked as they say.

Bob...


I've heard from some using the VIA chipset that they were able to install and run with no problem, however the workstation with a VIA chipset I had tried to install on wouldn't take the install.

works for me on a k8t neo fisr2 which is a via k8t800 with a VT8237 south bridge, I have some disks on the promise 20378 which also works.

also I've done several installs on servers with intel H6300ESB sata
controlers and they've all been fine.

Clearly others' milage varies a lot
compared to mine. but its all good information. I like the VIA chipset, but I
like the OS and hardware to work better, so the more responses we get to this
thread the better. That way we'll know which chipsets and SATA setups readily
accept the FC3 installation.



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