Hi.
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 OS on the machine is Windows XP, but I'll be wiping that out and
replacing it with Fedora 12 Core. However, when I boot from
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
>> > 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 w