SATA

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 n5xmt at bellsouth.net wrote:

> Joel,
> What driver did you use for the Promise controller?
> I have a Soltek K8TPro-939 MB with the PDC20579 chip and nothing seems to work...

on mine:

sata_via                7237  2
sata_promise            9797  0
libata                 41541  2 sata_via,sata_promise
sd_mod                 16449  3
scsi_mod              119697  4 sg,sata_promise,libata,sd_mod


>> From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu>
>> Date: 2004/12/25 Sat PM 12:02:39 EST
>> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>> Subject: Re: SATA
>>
>> 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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