On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 05:37:27PM -0500, dorn hetzel wrote: > On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 12:31:49AM +0200, roy wrote: > > > > I'm going to buy a SATA HD dedicated for Debian (out of IDE connections and > > the HD's are always full). > > > > I've never installed Debian (or linux) before, just wanted to make sure this > > is going to work (as for as the HD's concerned)... > > Has anyone done this before or can confirm SATA should not be a problem? > > > Using a Abit AA8 motherboard, with the onboard SATA controller, > I encountered significant dificulties in installing to a SATA > boot disk running in the native high performance mode. I think > that it would be no trouble in the compatability mode where it > basically pretends to be a PATA disk, but I wanted the max > performance (The disks under full SATA mode look like sort of > like SCSI disks to the system, showing up as /dev/sda, etc.) > > I wound up using a PATA boot disk and just use the 4 SATA > disks after booting. When I have more time, I do hear it's > possible to get a booting kernel built that will come up > on the native SATA disks... > > Best Regards! > > -Dorn
I'm sorry to say so but in my opinion use of SATA discs should be avoided at the moment, if one wants to have a stable system. It is possible though, by including appropriate modules for your chipset into the kernel (the most recent kernel if possible). Piotr -- Piotr Kopszak, Ph.D. Polish Art Gallery, National Museum in Warsaw -----------------------------> http://kopszak.mnw.art.pl/ http://www.magnatune.com/artists/altri_stromenti -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
