I've had no problems with the VIA 8237 chipset and SATA Hard Drives with Fedora Core 2 or 3. This was on DFI motherboards. On 4/28/05, Scot L. Harris <webid@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 10:35, Scott Pearson wrote: > > > Don't know about FC3, but the first Fedora release you needed to format > > your SATA drive first before Fedora would recognize it. Since I was, > > and still am, running a dual boot Linux/Win2k machine, it was no > > problem to format it using Windows back then, which the gentleman you > > are replying to apparently has done, as he appears to be replacing or > > trying to replace WinXP with Linux. You may need to use something else > > to format it if you don't have access to a Win box to do it with. There > > are a variety of tools out there to do that. How many are free I don't > > know. > > A couple of months ago I built a system using a ASUS P5GD2 Deluxe > motherboard that had two different SATA chipsets. The Silicon 3114R > chipset worked just fine, I was able to install FC3 to brand new > harddrives on that controller no problems. > > The other chipset did not appear to see the SATA drives. I think that > problem may have been a bios setting for doing a fast scan on that bus. > I have since disabled that but have not tried attaching any drives to > that controller again. > > I did get a recommendation to not use SATA DVD drives. Apparently at > that time there were some possible issues with the system seeing them > correctly and being able to boot from them. > > So the main thing to check IMHO is the particular SATA chip set that > your board has. If it is supported in the kernel you should be OK at > this time. > > -- > Scot L. Harris > webid@xxxxxxxxxx > > Yow! Did something bad happen or am I in a drive-in movie?? > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
