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

[Mark Komarinski]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 12:50:32AM -0500, Benjamin Scott wrote:
>   The other path makes SATA support into Just Another Device Driver.  In
> practice, this means think of SATA as SCSI.  You need the right driver or
> you go nowhere.  This is also the same on both doze and nix.  For nix, it
> means driver modules or custom kernel builds; for doze it means hitting [F6]
> during installer boot and loading a floppy disk.

In this path, SATA drives show up as SCSI devices (/dev/sd?).

I have two systems I'm maintaining, one is my workstation with a 3ware
SATA RAID card, the other is an IBM Dual Opteron workstation with built-in
SATA (I could find the chipset if anyone is interested).  Both machines are
able to boot and install FC2 and 3 without any additional drivers.  Not so
sure about using a 2.4-based kernel though.

The 3ware cards are relatively inexpensive and can work as JBOD. If you
want to go to SATA and want a card that works, get one.

-Mark
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