SATA boot whish for FC3

[Mark Lane]

On July 20, 2004 11:24 am, Geoffrey Leach <geoff at direcway.com> wrote:
>  It is true that SATA support was missing in FC1, as it was first  
> available in the 2.6 kernel.  SATA drivers use /dev/sd? for the disks,  
> of course.

This isn't strictly true. 

Some SATA drivers were available in the 2.4 Kernel and RedHat Enterprise 3.0 
came with Silicon Image 3112 support though I am not sure you could install 
to it.

As for drive letter assignment that depends on the SATA controller. The 
promise you have appears to the system as a SCSI device and thus 
uses /dev/sd? lettering. However my VIA SATA controller appears as an ide 
device. This is with both controllers being supported via libata.
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