SATA
Joel Jaeggli
joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu
Sat Dec 25 17:02:39 UTC 2004
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, Mark Weaver wrote:
> Bob Chiodini wrote:
>> 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...
>>
>
> I've heard from some using the VIA chipset that they were able to install and
> run with no problem, however the workstation with a VIA chipset I had tried
> to install on wouldn't take the install.
works for me on a k8t neo fisr2 which is a via k8t800 with a VT8237 south
bridge, I have some disks on the promise 20378 which also works.
also I've done several installs on servers with intel H6300ESB sata
controlers and they've all been fine.
> Clearly others' milage varies a lot
> compared to mine. but its all good information. I like the VIA chipset, but I
> like the OS and hardware to work better, so the more responses we get to this
> thread the better. That way we'll know which chipsets and SATA setups readily
> accept the FC3 installation.
>
>
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