Scot L. Harris wrote: > I also selected the Plextor PX-716A DVD burner for this unit. I was > able to boot from the FC3 iso disks and load FC3 using that drive just > fine. I connected it to the black IDE connector on the front edge of > the mother board. The only odd thing with this is that FC3 seems to > have identified the drive a /dev/hda. Why do you think this is odd? The hard drives on this system (as you said) are SATA, and the latest Intel chipsets only support one PATA ( = traditional IDE) channel, which is the one you'll have put it on. So if you've jumpered it as master, it will be the primary master, and hence /dev/hda. > I am using only SATA type hard drives (four Maxtor 300GB drives). > Apparently smartd does not work with SATA drives, or at least not with > these SATA drives. For now I have just disabled smartd to prevent the > failure message on reboot. It is, apparently, coming "very soon": http://linux.yyz.us/sata/software-status.html#smart > I should also note that my motherboard has two SATA controllers, each > can support 4 SATA hard drives. The Silicon 3114R controller works out > of the box and saw my hard drives. Currently have all four hard drives > connected to the Silicon 3114R controller. A quick Google suggests that this is connected via a standard PCI connection. This could get saturated by simultaneous accesses to only two of those disks: just something to bear in mind. James. -- James Wilkinson | 'In a serial interface, the data bits move down a Exeter Devon UK | single channel one after the other, like railway E-mail address: james | trains. This is different from the parallel interface @westexe.demon.co.uk | in which groups of bits arrive together, like London | buses.' -- 'The Computer Dictionary', Jon Wedge
