On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 05:50, Peter Boy wrote: > I'm considering to buy S-ATA drives for my new FC3/FC4 machine, but I'm > wondering whether I might run in endless trouble with them. There are so > many reports here about problems to get FC 3/4 even installed. > > I consider to buy: Shuttle SN95, AMD 64 nForce3 Ultra with internal S- > ATA Raid 0, 1, 0+1 (the one, where S-ATA is supposed to work) > > I would like to use 2 drives in a Raid 1 (mirroring) configuration. > > Can someone report success with this kind of configuration (and perhaps > give some hints about installation issues?) > > Thanks in advance > Peter I think SATA support is more of an issue with the controller chips on your motherboard than with the drives themselves. The motherboard in one system I have has two different SATA controller chip sets. The Silicon 3114R chipset worked no problem. The other chip set I think is an Intel 82801FR/FRW (ICH6R/ICH6RW) SATA controller was not able to see the Maxtor drives I had installed. I suspect the problem was during the initial detection of the drives, it was timing out. I have subsequently found an option in the BIOS that disables the quick scan. That may have resolved that problem but I have not had the system opened up again to try putting a drive on that controller again. I was able to install FC3 in that system using only SATA hard drives off of the Silicon 3114R controller. At the time I was told to avoid using SATA DVD or CD drives as support for those was not matured. So I do have an IDE DVD burner that I used to boot from CD with to load the system. Have not used this in a RAID configuration so I can not comment on that except to say that most of the advice I have read says to use the linux software raid tools instead of the hardware raid support that most chipsets allow. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx The 80's -- when you can't tell hairstyles from chemotherapy.
