Dawning Sky wrote: > On 6/18/07, Etanisla Lopez-Ortiz <fedora.list@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> What I have: >> home-brew with 1 SATA hard drive and 1 SATA optical drive >> >> What I don't have: >> FC7 installed >> (even after trying "linux askmethod all-ide-generic nodmraid") >> >> It is my (flawed) understanding that the sata driver that FC7 uses on >> install doesn't play nice with systems with multiple SATA devices, or on >> systems with SATA/PATA devices. The last I read, was to install FC7 off >> a large (4G+) usb drive, a network install, an iso mounted on a FAT32 >> partition, or onto the hard drive while connected to another computer >> and then placing the drive back in the original computer and praying it >> all works well. >> > > what are you talking about? I installed (freshly) F7 on a newly built > all-SATA system, using a DVD booted on a SATA DVD+-RW drive. i > installed the OS on one SATA HDD, and built a RAID5 array off the > other 4 SATA HDDs during the installation. > >> None of those options are available to me. Google keeps pointing me back >> to the same Fedora Forum posts of which I have already summarized above. >> >> Should I stick with my working FC6, or are there possibilities I haven't >> run across yet? >> > > DS > I'm running F7 on an all SATA system with 16 SATA2 HDDs in RAID5 with 4TB of storage. It upgraded from FC6 perfectly. -- Da mihi sis bubulae frustrum assae, solana tuberosa in modo gallico fricta, ac quassum lactatum coagulatum crassum Mark Haney Sr. Systems Administrator ERC Broadband (828) 350-2415 Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support
