Speaking of SATA... (was flame war...)

Fred puissante at biz.puissante.com
Mon Feb 21 17:32:00 EST 2005


On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 13:33 -0500, Bob Bell wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 10:59:42AM -0500, Derek Martin <invalid at pizzashack.org> wrote:
> > No, I'm not.  If my server has a new mass storage controller that
> > isn't recognized by the 2.4 kernel, but is recognized by the 2.6
> > controller, then debian stable won't install on it, but other more
> > curent distros will.  I'm not saying that such hardware exists right
> > now, today, but it could, or it could tomorrow, and this kind of
> > situation has existed in the past.
> 
> AFAIK, SATA was only recently added to the mainstream 2.4 kernel
> (2.4.27, IIRC).  I'm not sure if Debian used a back-ported patch prior
> to that event or if it didn't support SATA.  Also AFAIK, ACHI SATA
> support is in 2.6 but not 2.4 ATM.  There may be some SATA controller
> chipsets support in 2.6 but not 2.4.

Speaking of SATA, how well is SATA supported in 2.6? Is it at the point
I can buy a SATA motherboard "blind" and not worry? Or do we still have
a way to go yet?

-Fred





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