New system and Seria ATA
Joel Jaeggli
joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu
Fri Feb 6 22:19:13 UTC 2004
Andy,
my controllers (there are two on the mainboard via and promise) were
supported by the installation.
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 apjaworski at mmm.com wrote:
>
> Kevin,
>
> I hope it is OK to bother you again about the SATA problem with Linux. In
> your answer to my original question (below) you mentioned that FC1
> recognized your SATA drives with no difficulty. Did you have to use the
> supplementary block driver diskette (from the image directory on yarrow
> disc1) or the install process from the FC1 CD took care of recognizing the
> drives?
>
> Did you by any chance install any MS Windows system on this hardware before
> Linux. If so, my understanding is that you need to follow a special
> procedure and have a driver diskette when installing, say, W2k.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Andy
>
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> On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 21:50, apjaworski at mmm.com wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I need to put together a new system and I have been thinking about Serial
> > ATA drives. I searched stuff using Google and I found out about SATA
> > support for different chipsets. I also found out about libata modules in
> > 2.6.? kernels. However, my question is this: if I buy a brand new
> > hardware with SATA disks only, is there any way to install Linux on it?
> If
> > so, could somebody explain how or point me to some explanations?
>
> I have a couple of machines using ASUS P4P800 motherboards which use the
> ICH5R controller for SATA. I have a couple of Seagate SATA drives in
> each (no IDE or SCSI drives). I had no problem installing FC1, it
> recognized them without difficulty. I did not try the mb bios raid, but
> did set them up with the Linux sw raid on some partitions.
>
> The SATA drives show up as /dev/sda and sdb. hdparm treats them as SCSI
> drives, so doesn't show much. The smart monitoring daemon doesn't seem
> to be able to do anything with them, probably because it also thinks
> they are SCSI drives. Everything else that I've tried works fine and
> these two issues I just ignore.
>
> By the way, if you happen to use the same motherboard, plug your
> speakers into the line in jack (really!). You also have to tell the
> install to use the sk98lin module to get the on board ethernet
> recognized since it's not picked up by the probes.
>
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