> > I have a machine whose only hard drive is a SATA 160GB (Western > > Digital). The SATA controller is an ITE IT8212 (a raid controller, but > > I'm not using that feature). The IT8212 is a PATA controller not SATA. I guess they may have wired SATA bridges to it. > machine I had to get the driver from the mfg web page and compile it > myself. But later (I think it was at the Centos/RHEL5 transition) I found > that there was a working driver in the system. So, I'd expect that Fedora > 12 would have it built in too. It does. One thing worth noting is that the chip has two modes. In the RAID mode it doesn't support CD-ROM devices but handles basic raid stuff itself via its embedded microcontroller. In non-RAID mode it behaves exactly like a standard IDE controller. Both modes are supported. RAID 0 is generally best done using software RAID in Linux, RAID 1 there are advantages to doing it either way. Some of the RAID firmwares are a bit flakey so if you get a problem boot it with the device in non-RAID mode. (if the BIOS won't let you set it then try 'pata_it821x.noraid=1' as a boot option. Alan -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
