Your experiences with S-ATA drives?

[Robin Laing]

Peter Boy wrote:
> I'm considering to buy S-ATA drives for my new FC3/FC4 machine, but I'm
> wondering whether I might run in endless trouble with them. There are so
> many reports here about problems to get FC 3/4 even installed.
> 
> I consider to buy: Shuttle SN95, AMD 64 nForce3 Ultra with internal S-
> ATA Raid 0, 1, 0+1 (the one, where S-ATA is supposed to work)
> 
> I would like to use 2 drives in a Raid 1 (mirroring) configuration.
> 
> Can someone report success with this kind of configuration (and perhaps
> give some hints about installation issues?)
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Peter
> 
>   
> 

Used SATA drives for 1.5 years and no problem in FC1.  Using software 
raid as the chip is a fake raid chip.

I had to install a kernel module at the time and it wasn't included 
with the distro.

I install the OS on a IDE drive and use the SATAs for /home

I am about to install a second SATA controller card and two more 
drives to expand the /home directory when I upgrade to FC4.

I wanted a SATA RAID card but the ones I want need PCIx which I don't 
have.

-- 
Robin Laing