Re: SATA + debian

[Bryan Andersen]

First check to make sure you can run the SATA devices in PATA emulation 
mode in hardware.  If you can't, you will have to build a custom kernel 
on a different system so you can use it to when you load Debian.  If you 
load using the SATA drives in PATA emulation mode, when you build your 
new kernel with the libata patches you will have to set the root device 
in the new kernel.  Libata uses the SCSI subsystem so the devices names 
will be /dev/sda and /dev/sdb rather than /dev/hda and /dev/hdb.  There 
is a little bit about this on the inux kernel email list.

I don't know about the motherboard and SATA controller you have.  I'm 
using a ASUS A7N8X (sil3112 SATA chipset) with a couple of Seagate SATA 
drives on it.  I'm using the libata patches on a 2.4.25-pre4 kernel. 
Each revision of libata is increasing it's reliability alot so it pays 
to get the latest.  My SATA drives are in addition to my primary PATA 
drives.  I boot off of my PATA drives, but then I put the initial system 
together long before SATA drives were genearally available.

- Bryan

Erik Steffl wrote:

Are there likely to be any troubles installing debian on a box with a
SATA hard drive?
The chipsets are:
    North Bridge: i865G
    South Bridge: iCH5-R
Can anyone point me to some good documentation relating to SATA and
linux?


  not sure what R in ICH5-R means (I have intel D865-PERL motherboard 
with ICH5, at least I think it's ICH5 and SATA works)

  you need fairly recent kernel (2.4.22 or something like that). Note 
that if you are using HD that's above 130GB you might need even newer 
kernel.

  I use 2.4.21-ac4 with libata5 patches (ac4 for SATA, libata5 for 
 >130GB support)

  SATA disks can be seen as ide of scsi, I have only had success with 
scsi (kernel config CONFIG_SCSI_ATA_PIIX=y), otherwise the syustem 
freezes right after the disks are detected

    erik




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