No Hard drive device found at Fedora Core 3

[mylar]

On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 13:06, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Emanuel Mauritzson wrote:
> > Having problems again,
> > 
> > Red hat 9 didn´t support SATA harddriver. But Fedora Core 3 should.
> > 
> > But i get the same message  No Devices found and then the system reboots.
> > 
> > My Hardware:
> > Operating System:    Red Hat Linux 9
> > Motherboard:        Intel D925XCV
> > CPU:            Intel Pentium 4
> > Memory            1GB (2 x 512MB DDR2 PC400 modules)
> > Hard Drive:        Seagate Barracuda SATA 80GB
> > 
> > Any tips?
> 
> If you must have RH9 and SATA, you'll have to go to your SATA controller
> vendor's website and see if they have a driver disk for RH9.  If they
> do, download it to a floppy following their instructions, then install
> RH9 using this command at the "boot:" command
> 
> 	linux dd
> 
> When the installer asks for the driver disk, pop the floppy into the
> drive and hit ENTER.
> 
> You'd be much better off with FC2 or FC3, both of which have native
> SATA support..  RH9 is a dead operating system.  It reached end of life
> in April of 2004.

So what's the deal with SATA ? Is SATA ultimately going to replace all
PATA controllers ?? Some new mommyboards seem to have one SATA
controller (meant for 2 SATA hard drives) and one standard PATA
controller meant for IDE CDROMS & DVD drives (although I've installed
hard drives on it anyhow). Is SATA going to be the wave of the very near
future ?

mylah