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

[Bill McGonigle]

On Feb 21, 2005, at 17:31, Fred wrote:

> 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?

No.  I did that and I'm spending lots of time digging through Google 
tonight.  The disk (Segate) works fine in PATA emulation mode but, 
then, what's the point?  Oh, and if I put a disc in the DVD drive the 
kernel panics (but install went OK from DVD).  I'm installing it in a 
Pundit-R barebones which uses an ATI integrated chipset.  There's a bug 
I'm following @Redhat on the CD problem, and I saw a note in 2.6.11rc3 
that looks promising re: the controller.  When it does get resolved I 
figure I'll probably have to fiddle with makeinitrd options to 
bootstrap auto-detection.

Now, there are some SATA chipsets that have been around for a while and 
are well supported, but that's research, not "blind" as you say.  But I 
bought this one for the formfactor and built-ins, so I'm approaching it 
from the wrong angle for a 'stable' solution.

Besides that, it's a hell of a nice system - I'm replacing an 800MHz 
box with a slow bus and the app I built it for is running about 40x 
faster.  Once that project is done it'll be my MythBox.

-Bill
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