On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 19:44 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote: > 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. > Not an issue unless it gets to the point where iostat shows a lot of iowait time.
