SATA

Bob Chiodini rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Sat Dec 25 11:34:10 UTC 2004


Mark Weaver wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> David.
>>
>
> Hi David,
>
> My experience with FC3 and SATA drives is it really depends on the 
> controller and whether or not the CD drive is IDE or not. I recently 
> had the unpleasant experience of attempting to install FC3 on an HP 
> Proliant and no matter how hard we tried and no matter what we tried 
> it wouldn't go on correctly. We'd get the system to install ok, but it 
> wouldn't boot. kept on dying in the first stages of the boot with 
> kernel panic because it couldn't see the partitions where the OS was 
> located.
>
> the problem came down to a catch 22 because of the particular kernel 
> driver that "had" to be present in order to be able to install and run 
> FC with the controller that was in the machine. Had we been trying to 
> install RH Enterprise Linux that would have been a different story.
>
> What we finally ended up doing was installing Mandrake 10.0 on this 
> machien and its running fine. My advice to you is to research fully 
> your hardware compatibility before embarking.
>
Just installed FC3 on a MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum Socket 939 with a 120GB 
SATA drive.  No problems that I've noticed.  Uses the nv_sata driver.  
It just worked as they say.

Bob...




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