SATA

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

David Corrigan wrote:
> I'm about to install Fedora Core 3 on an SATA harddrive, anyone have
> any tips or advice before I start? I've heard about some peoples
> problems and want to do my best to avoid them.

If it works out of the box, it works good.

If it doesn't work out of the box, Linux probably doesn't support that 
chipset yet.  Just set BIOS to emulate old (parallel) IDE, and than it 
works again.

If you have card/chip with fake RAID (most SATA cards/chips are like 
that), turn it off.  You can't use it under Linux, and there is no 
advantage of using it (it is just software RAID anyhow, you are better 
of configuring native Linux software RAID).  Leave it on only if you 
know your chip really has hardware RAID (as I said, vast majority don't 
have it).

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